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Violence, Death and the Soul of Policing

  • 1.  Violence, Death and the Soul of Policing

    Posted 10-24-2025 08:35

    Reposting for the ethnographers among you ...

    Dear colleagues, students, and aficionados of ethnography,

    Join the Ethnographic Café next Friday, November 7 @ 12 p.m. PT, 9 p.m CET, on Zoom.

    Michael Sierra-Arévalo will present his book The Danger Imperative

    Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing, an ethnography that traces the emotional lives of firearm violence and institutional neglect.   In conversation with urban ethnographer Peter Moskos. 

     

    You can read two chapters of Sierra-Arévalo's book here and here.

    Zoom: 

    https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/3402788986?pwd=iKr3uuT1RYDuCz6wdYHagsyFplf3Y0.1&omn=63508255300

    Meeting ID: 340 278 8986

    Passcode: 12345

    See our line up this semester and circulate it far and wide: 



     

    Oct 17:  Nora Gross, Brothers in Grief, with Jooyoung Lee

    Nov 7:   Michael Sierra‑Arévalo, The Danger Imperative, with Peter Moskos

    Dec 5:   Ben Shestakofsky, Behind the Startup, with Jenny Davis 


    The ETHNOGRAPHIC CAFE: a place for ethnographers to meet across disciplines, generations, and countries.

    Best,

    Ashley Mears, Ékédi Mpondo-Dika, Loïc Wacquant



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    Mark de Rond
    Professor
    University of Cambridge
    Cambridge
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