Paul Mutsaers
Biographic Data
| ID | 142827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Mutsaers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutsaers |
| SIGNATURE | MUTSAERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9112-724X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Maroon justice in Suriname: Pasts and presents worth fighting for
Maroon societies are seriously understudied in the restorative justice (RJ) field, which is odd considering their age-old struggle against retributive justice systems. Precisely because the rise of Maroons can be understood as an attempt to ‘reappropriate conflict’ and bring back legal protection to formerly enslaved African-Americans who had been subjected to the crudest of laws under colonial regimes, we should not forget that history when cons…
Globalizing local policing: An ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives." Policing and Society, 33(8), pp. 1004–1005
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre
In a special issue in Ethnography, the question was raised how to study violence ethnographically in Latin America and the Caribbean. The present article seeks to extend this special issue with reflections on how to study different forms of violence 'after the fact', based on fieldwork at a juvenile detention centre in Curaçao in 2019 and 2020. We present intersubjectively realistic accounts of violence in the family sphere. These accounts came i…
Police Unlimited: Policing, Migrants, and the Values of Bureaucracy
Police Unlimited is centred on a controversial idea that it supports with detailed ethnographic materials: police forces are a focal point of conflict in modern societies. Instead of a consensus model of law enforcement that understands the function of policing as socially integrative, it links to a conflict model concerned with the socially divisive effects of policing. Throughout the book, these effects and their causes are discussed on a natio…
Contributions to an anthropology of work: On the role of psycho-technicians in the management of freedom within the Dutch police
Organizational life has taken on a psychological hue now that psychological expertise has become an ever more important factor in matters such as selection, job evaluation, work design, job enrichment and the like. This phenomenon is not new, but has recently received new critical commentary in various disciplines. This article contributes to an anthropology of the 'cognitive turn' in diversity management (DM) within the Dutch police on the basis…
The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology
An Ethnographic Study of the Policing of Internal Borders in the Netherlands: Synergies Between Criminology and Anthropology
Tense contact between the police and migrants in Western societies remains to be an important topic in police scholarship. In sociological studies of the police, this matter is ascribed to the discretionary authority of individual officers that is sanctioned by their departments—not to official policy or direct ethnic or racial orientations. This article (1) discusses the ‘policing of migration’ literature that claims the exact opposite; (2) appl…
All of Me: PsychologizingTurkish-Dutch Police Officers in theNetherlands
This article offers a critical take on the excessive use of psychological applications in the work sphere, that is, management techniques that open up the psyche of the individual employee to interceptions, evaluations, and manipulations by superiors. It builds upon existing work on the psychologization of labor under the aegis of human resource apparatuses and contributes to it by centralizing the role that confessions have in this process. The …
Super-diversity at the margins? Youth language in North Brabant, The Netherlands
‘Super-diversity’ has gained popularity in the field of sociolinguistics as a new concept that jettisons the rather rigid toolkit of speech communities, ethnolects and mother tongues in favour of notions of truncated repertoires and resources that better capture the plurality of styles, registers and genres of people living in a globalized world. In this article we take stock of the (foregoing) literature on super-diversity (a ‘sociolinguistics o…
An Ethnographic Study of the Policing of Internal Borders in the Netherlands: Synergies Between Criminology and Anthropology
Tense contact between the police and migrants in Western societies remains to be an important topic in police scholarship. In sociological studies of the police, this matter is ascribed to the discretionary authority of individual officers that is sanctioned by their departments—not to official policy or direct ethnic or racial orientations. This article (1) discusses the ‘policing of migration’ literature that claims the exact opposite; (2) appl…
The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology
Super-diversity at the margins? Youth language in North Brabant, The Netherlands
‘Super-diversity’ has gained popularity in the field of sociolinguistics as a new concept that jettisons the rather rigid toolkit of speech communities, ethnolects and mother tongues in favour of notions of truncated repertoires and resources that better capture the plurality of styles, registers and genres of people living in a globalized world. In this article we take stock of the (foregoing) literature on super-diversity (a ‘sociolinguistics o…
All of Me: PsychologizingTurkish-Dutch Police Officers in theNetherlands
This article offers a critical take on the excessive use of psychological applications in the work sphere, that is, management techniques that open up the psyche of the individual employee to interceptions, evaluations, and manipulations by superiors. It builds upon existing work on the psychologization of labor under the aegis of human resource apparatuses and contributes to it by centralizing the role that confessions have in this process. The …
Super-diversity at the margins? Youth language in North Brabant, The Netherlands
‘Super-diversity’ has gained popularity in the field of sociolinguistics as a new concept that jettisons the rather rigid toolkit of speech communities, ethnolects and mother tongues in favour of notions of truncated repertoires and resources that better capture the plurality of styles, registers and genres of people living in a globalized world. In this article we take stock of the (foregoing) literature on super-diversity (a ‘sociolinguistics o…
An Ethnographic Study of the Policing of Internal Borders in the Netherlands: Synergies Between Criminology and Anthropology
Tense contact between the police and migrants in Western societies remains to be an important topic in police scholarship. In sociological studies of the police, this matter is ascribed to the discretionary authority of individual officers that is sanctioned by their departments—not to official policy or direct ethnic or racial orientations. This article (1) discusses the ‘policing of migration’ literature that claims the exact opposite; (2) appl…
All of Me: PsychologizingTurkish-Dutch Police Officers in theNetherlands
This article offers a critical take on the excessive use of psychological applications in the work sphere, that is, management techniques that open up the psyche of the individual employee to interceptions, evaluations, and manipulations by superiors. It builds upon existing work on the psychologization of labor under the aegis of human resource apparatuses and contributes to it by centralizing the role that confessions have in this process. The …
The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology
Contributions to an anthropology of work: On the role of psycho-technicians in the management of freedom within the Dutch police
Organizational life has taken on a psychological hue now that psychological expertise has become an ever more important factor in matters such as selection, job evaluation, work design, job enrichment and the like. This phenomenon is not new, but has recently received new critical commentary in various disciplines. This article contributes to an anthropology of the 'cognitive turn' in diversity management (DM) within the Dutch police on the basis…
Police Unlimited: Policing, Migrants, and the Values of Bureaucracy
Police Unlimited is centred on a controversial idea that it supports with detailed ethnographic materials: police forces are a focal point of conflict in modern societies. Instead of a consensus model of law enforcement that understands the function of policing as socially integrative, it links to a conflict model concerned with the socially divisive effects of policing. Throughout the book, these effects and their causes are discussed on a natio…
Maroon justice in Suriname: Pasts and presents worth fighting for
Maroon societies are seriously understudied in the restorative justice (RJ) field, which is odd considering their age-old struggle against retributive justice systems. Precisely because the rise of Maroons can be understood as an attempt to ‘reappropriate conflict’ and bring back legal protection to formerly enslaved African-Americans who had been subjected to the crudest of laws under colonial regimes, we should not forget that history when cons…
Globalizing local policing: An ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives." Policing and Society, 33(8), pp. 1004–1005
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre
In a special issue in Ethnography, the question was raised how to study violence ethnographically in Latin America and the Caribbean. The present article seeks to extend this special issue with reflections on how to study different forms of violence 'after the fact', based on fieldwork at a juvenile detention centre in Curaçao in 2019 and 2020. We present intersubjectively realistic accounts of violence in the family sphere. These accounts came i…
Anthropology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works)