A fighting fetish: On transnational police and their warlike presentation of self

Transnational police readily use martial language in the stories they tell about their work. Their actual work, however, tells a different and less dramatic story. Why, then, do insist on these warlike tales? Why is there discrepancy between self-representation of transnational policing its reality? Using an ethnographic study, this article provides some answers. First, it includes overview three established explanations inclination to represent work terms. Next, additional reading presented. Building Reiner’s discussion “police fetishism”, proposes that actors have idée fixe own professional inevitability. They blindly believe must exist, but also has be done combatively truly In conclusion, contemplates what existence such “fighting fetish” means both theoretical reform