The Anthropology of Transnational Crime Control: The War against Drugs, Combating Human Trafficking, and the Fight against Counterfeit Medications

跨国犯罪控制的人类学：反毒品战争、打击人口贩运和打击假药

• 批准号: 180159683
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thomas G. Kirsch
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Ethnologie und Kulturanthropologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/180159683?language=en
• 关键词: Anthropology; Transnational; Crime; Control; War

The objective of this anthropological project Is to describe and analyse how the making of order and disorder is presently reconfigured in sub-Saharan Africa under the influence of newly emerging regimes of transnational crime control. It explores the processes of translation and adaptation involved in transnational crime control in Sierra Leone and South Africa with a view to the question of what technologies and significations are involved in three fields of crime control, namely the war on drugs, the fight against human trafficking and the combat against counterfeit medicines. With this thematic focus, the project alms to make a contribution to wider social scientific debates on African states in the light of the continuing challenge to their authority in general; in particular, it examines by means of multi-sited ethnographic methodologies how forms of biopolitics articulate with performances of sovereignty under the new paradigm of securitisation. Under this paradigm, we argue, crime ha$ become a constitutive social and political category, and sub-Saharan Africa has become a kind of laboratory for new security regimes. By comparing two West African countries and South Africa, and by comparing three different (and yet interrelated) fields of crime control, the research seeks to achieve both an ethnographic specificity and a considerable level of generality that contributes to the objectives of the Priority Programme in terms of empirical research and theory work.

这个人类学项目的目的是描述和分析如何在新出现的跨国犯罪控制制度的影响下，在撒哈拉以南非洲重新配置秩序和混乱。它探讨了塞拉利昂和南非跨国犯罪控制所涉及的翻译和改编过程，以解决在三个犯罪控制领域，即禁毒战争、打击人口贩运和打击假药中涉及哪些技术和意义的问题。有了这个主题的重点，该项目有助于作出贡献，以更广泛的社会科学辩论非洲国家在其权威的持续挑战，在一般情况下，特别是，它通过多站点的民族志方法的手段，如何生物政治的形式与主权的表现下，证券化的新范式。在这种范式下，我们认为，犯罪已成为一个构成性的社会和政治类别，撒哈拉以南非洲已成为一种新的安全制度的实验室。通过比较两个西非国家和南非，并通过比较三个不同的（但相互关联的）犯罪控制领域，研究力求实现人种学的特殊性和相当程度的普遍性，从而在实证研究和理论工作方面有助于实现优先方案的目标。