Bureaucratic aesthetics : Report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerie

Göpfert, Mirco

Bureaucratic aesthetics : Report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerie

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2013

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American Ethnologist. 2013, 40(2), pp. 324-334. ISSN 0094-0496. eISSN 1548-1425. Available under: doi: 10.1111/amet.12024

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Nigérien gendarmes invest considerable creative energy in their daily paperwork. I explore how the gendarmes conceive of the writing of seemingly purely bureaucratic documents, procès-verbaux, in aesthetic terms. At the same time, I ground the aesthetic appreciation of these documents in the gendarmes’ socioprofessional environment. Writing an aesthetically satisfying procès-verbal is a means of gaining respect from colleagues and superiors and of justifying and actualizing gendarmes’ self-perception as intellectuals in uniform. Bureaucratic work, I argue, is always also aesthetic work, and bureaucratic aesthetics is where aesthetic, pragmatic, and legal reasonings become one.

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300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie

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GÖPFERT, Mirco, 2013. Bureaucratic aesthetics : Report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerie. In: American Ethnologist. 2013, 40(2), pp. 324-334. ISSN 0094-0496. eISSN 1548-1425. Available under: doi: 10.1111/amet.12024

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@article{Gopfert2013Burea-30766,
  year={2013},
  doi={10.1111/amet.12024},
  title={Bureaucratic aesthetics : Report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerie},
  number={2},
  volume={40},
  issn={0094-0496},
  journal={American Ethnologist},
  pages={324--334},
  author={Göpfert, Mirco}
}

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