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The Sensation of Security
The Sensation of Security
explores how private security guards are a permanent,
conspicuous fixture of everyday life in the Brazilian city of Rio
de Janeiro. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research
with security laborers, managers, company owners, and elite global
consultants, Erika Robb Larkins examines the provision of security
in Rio from the perspective of security personnel, providing an
analysis of the racialized logics that underpin the ongoing work of
securing the city. Larkins shows how guards communicate a
sensação de segurança (a sensation of security) to clients
and customers who have the capital to pay for it. Cultivated
through performances by security laborers, the sensation of
security is a set of culturally shaped racialized and gendered
impressions related to safety, order, well-being, and cleanliness.
While the sensação de segurança indexes an outward-facing
task of allaying fears of crime and maintaining order in elite
spaces, it also refers to the emotional labor and embodied worlds
that security workers navigate.
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New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific
New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a distinctly Asia-Pacific-oriented perspective to one of the most discussed components of international security policy, human security. This volume of regional experts assess countries that have either spearheaded this form of security politics (Japan and Australia) or have recently advanced to become a key player on various aspects of human security in both a domestic and global context (China). The authors provide an interesting investigation into the continued relevance and promise of the human security paradigm against more 'traditional' security approaches. Accordingly the book will appeal to readers across a wide band of the social sciences (international relations, security studies, development studies and public policy) and to practitioners and analysts working in applied settings.
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The New war on the poor
When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals. The mistreatment by police and soldiers examined in this book reflects a new kind of stigmatization.
The New War on the Poor links the experiences of labour migrants crossing Latin America's international borders, indigenous Mexicans defending their territories against capitalist mega-projects, drug wars and paramilitary violence, Afro-Brazilians living on the urban periphery of Salvador, and farmers and business people tired of paying protection to criminal mafias. John Gledhill looks at how and why governments are failing to provide security to disadvantaged citizens while all too often painting them as a menace to the rest of society simply for being poor.
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Insecurity
Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores the concept of insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, economic, political, and social life in the West. The essays illuminate how attempts to make human and nonhuman systems secure and resilient end up having the opposite effect, making insecurity the default state of life today. Unique in its wide disciplinary breadth and variety of topics and methodological approaches—from intellectual history and cultural critique to case studies, qualitative ethnography, and personal narrative— Insecurity is written predominantly from the viewpoint of the United States. The contributors’ analyses include the securitization of nongovernmental aid to Palestine, Bangladeshi climate refugees, and the privatization of U.S. military forces; the history of the concept of insecurity and the securitization of finance; racialized urban development in Augusta, Georgia; Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and the consequences of the Marie Kondo method; and the intricate politics of sexual harassment in the U.S. academy. Contributors: Neel Ahuja, U of California, Santa Cruz; Aneesh Aneesh, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Lisa Bhungalia, Kent State U; Jennifer Doyle, U of California, Riverside; Annie McClanahan, U of California, Irvine; Andrea Miller, Florida Atlantic U; Mark Neocleous, Brunel U London; A. Naomi Paik, U of Illinois, Chicago; Maureen Ryan, U of South Carolina; Saskia Sassen, Columbia U.
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Troubled Waters
Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian
Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most
volatile and tension-filled spots in the world. Mehran Kamrava
identifies the four dynamics as: the neglect of human dimensions of
security, the inherent instability involved in reliance on the
United States and the exclusion of Iraq and Iran, the international
and security policies pursued by inside and outside actors, and a
suite of overlapping security dilemmas. These four factors combine
and interact to generate long-term volatility and ongoing tensions
within the Persian Gulf.
Through insights from Kamrava's interviews with Gulf elites into
policy decisions, the consequences of security dilemmas, the
priorities of local players, and the neglect of identity and
religion, Troubled Waters examines the root causes of
conflicts and crises that are currently unfolding in the region. As
Kamrava demonstrates, each state in the region, including Saudi
Arabia, Iran, and Qatar, has embarked on vigorous
security-producing efforts as part of foreign policy, flooding the
area with more munitions-thereby increasing insecurity and causing
more mistrust in a part of the world that needs no more
tension.
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