Policing the Holy Nation

The State and Righteous Violence in Vanuatu

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18939732
AutoresK Rio (0000-0002-5055-4883, University of Bergen, autor correspondente), Knut M Rio
Ano2011
Volume81
Fascículo1
Páginas51-71
Data de publicação2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOceania (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1834-4461.2011.tb00093.x
OpenAlexW1991282800
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas34

In Vanuatu, the police force has in recent years been strengthened by foreign government aid. AusAid and NZAid are heavily involved inside the police force, seeking to create ‘good governance’ and to shape Vanuatu's national developments. However, these measures also coincide with some other unexpected developments. Recent cases of violence, and especially of sorcery, have led the police to intervene in a quest for moral order. Police are becoming part of the articulation of new occult understandings of wealth and power. These developments are traced back partly to the history of colonial governance and the idea of righteous violence, but also to current restructurings of the Vanuatu state and growing Christian conceptions of Vanuatu as a holy nation

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