Amin, Sara N. and Trussler, Tanya and Watson, Danielle and Niulakita, Sepola T. (2023) Serving God, the Community and the State: Policing in Tuvalu. In: Policing the Global South: Colonial Legacies, Pluralities, Partnerships, and Reform. Routledge, London, pp. 95-105. ISBN 978-0-367-64812-1
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In this chapter we examine how police in Tuvalu negotiate a hybrid justice system where practices and policies have been changing. We found that police needed to adapt to sometimes conflicting relationships between religious authorities, customary authorities, the state, and the public. Drawing on interviews with police, community leaders, and religious leaders, we argue that discretionary practices characterize the way police negotiate these conflicts and changing relationships between traditional authority and modern authority. Here we present arguments that suggest a need to rethink how police are trained for post-colonial societies where state authority and legitimacy are based on the co-operation and consent of customary and religious authorities.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | policing, religion, culture, Tuvalu, indigenous |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
| Divisions: | School of Law and Social Sciences (SoLaSS) |
| Depositing User: | Sara Amin |
| Date Deposited: | 31 May 2023 00:07 |
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2023 00:17 |
| URI: | http://fjrepository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14009 |
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