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Open Your Eyes! Public Ordering and the Policing Gaze.
- Source :
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Modernism/Modernity . 2008, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p277-296. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The article discusses the social and psychological aspects of a stunt pulled by the German newspaper "Berliner Morgenpost" in November 1919, during the Weimar Republic government, when the paper staged a contest simulating a manhunt in order to encourage citizens of Berlin, Germany to keep watch for crime. Reporter Egon Jacobsohn played the criminal and a reward was offered for the first person to make a citizens' arrest. Power structures, citizens' agency, and law enforcement in Germany are discussed, as well as Social Democratic President Friedrich Ebert and the conditions of the Versailles Treaty.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10716068
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Modernism/Modernity
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 83988034
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2008.0043