Julia Hornberger is senior researcher in Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich and a research fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She is also a cofounder of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. Her research interests are justice, policing, the social life of law, violence and the international policing of counterfeit goods and health.

• 1.Introduction2. Remembering the Police3. From Geneva to Johannesburg: Human rights Training4. ‘Don’t Push this Constitution down my throat...’; the use of violence in everyday policing5. ‘Your Police – my police’: the informal privatisation of policing 6. ‘Omms gaan ry!’: on entanglement and human rights as violence7. Conclusion: human rights in their ordinary state

Julia Hornberger is senior researcher in Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich and a research fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She is also a cofounder of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. Her research interests are justice, policing, the social life of law, violence and the international policing of counterfeit goods and health.

• 1.Introduction2. Remembering the Police3. From Geneva to Johannesburg: Human rights Training4. ‘Don’t Push this Constitution down my throat...’; the use of violence in everyday policing5. ‘Your Police – my police’: the informal privatisation of policing 6. ‘Omms gaan ry!’: on entanglement and human rights as violence7. Conclusion: human rights in their ordinary state

Julia Hornberger is senior researcher in Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich and a research fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She is also a cofounder of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. Her research interests are justice, policing, the social life of law, violence and the international policing of counterfeit goods and health.

• 1.Introduction2. Remembering the Police3. From Geneva to Johannesburg: Human rights Training4. ‘Don’t Push this Constitution down my throat...’; the use of violence in everyday policing5. ‘Your Police – my police’: the informal privatisation of policing 6. ‘Omms gaan ry!’: on entanglement and human rights as violence7. Conclusion: human rights in their ordinary state