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“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”
― Her Fearful Symmetry
― Her Fearful Symmetry
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”
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“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”
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“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Why, then, is it so crucial to have ethnographies of urban policing? The answer to this question certainly becomes clearer now. It is not simply that ethnography provides a sort of immersion in the world of law enforcement, allowing us to understand what happens when the police are in the field. It is perhaps more importantly that it produces a vision of a world that has been made either invisible or opaque to most of us.”
― Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
― Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
Hannah’s 2025 Year in Books
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497 books
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771 books
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