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Twilight policing
South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance.Twilight Policingis an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers-a specific type of private security officer-and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something \"twilight.\" Their performances of security are also punitive, disciplinary, and exclusionary, and they work to reinforce post-apartheid racial and economic inequalities. Ultimately,Twilight Policinghelps to illuminate how citizens survive volatile conditions and to whom they assign the authority to guide them in the process.
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Security beyond the state : private security in international politics
\"Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional distinctions between public and private, global and local. Drawing on theories of globalization and late modernity, along with insights from criminology, political science and sociology, Security beyond the State maps the emergence of the global private security sector and develops a novel analytical framework for understanding these global security assemblages. Through in-depth examinations of four African countries - Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa - it demonstrates how global security assemblages effect the distribution of social power, the dynamics of state stability, and the operations of the international political economy, with significant implications for who gets secured and how in a global era\"--Provided by publisher.
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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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Private security in Africa
“Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability and urbanization have led to the rapid spread of private security providers. While these PSPs have already had a significant impact on African societies, their impact has so far received little in the way of comprehensive analysis. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, and encompassing anthropology, sociology and political science, Private Security in Africa offers unique insight into the lives and experiences of security providers and those affected by them, as well as into the fragile state context which has allowed them to thrive. Featuring original empirical research and case studies ranging from private policing in South Africa to the recruitment of Sierra Leoneans for private security work in Iraq, the book considers the full implications of PSPs for security and the state, not only for Africa but for the world as a whole.”
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Security supervision and management : theory and practice of asset protection
Security Supervision and Management, Fourth Edition, fills the basic training needs for security professionals who want to move into supervisory or managerial positions.Covering everything needed from how to work with today's generation security force employees to the latest advances in the security industry, Security Supervision and Management.
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Private security in Africa : from the global assemblage to the everyday
Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability and urbanisation have led to the rapid spread of private security providers. While these 'PSPs' have already had a significant impact on African societies, their impact has so far received little in the way of comprehensive analysis. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, and encompassing anthropology, sociology, and political science, this book offers unique insight into the lives and experiences of security providers and those affected by them, as well as into the fragile state context which has allowed them to thrive.
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Outsourcing War
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private
military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services,
training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing
War , Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved
in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether
they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical
prosecution of warfare. Her concern is with the ius in bello (right
conduct in war) strand of just war theory.
Just war theorizing is generally built on the assumption that
states, and states alone, wield a monopoly on the legitimate use of
force. Who holds responsibility for the actions of PMCs? What
ethical standards might they be required to observe? How might
deviations from such standards be punished? The privatization of
warfare poses significant challenges because of its reliance on a
statist view of the world. Eckert argues that the tradition of just
war theory-which predates the international system of states-can
evolve to apply to this changing world order. With an eye toward
the practical problems of military command, Eckert delves into
particular cases where PMCs have played an active role in armed
conflict and derives from those cases the modifications necessary
to apply just principles to new agents in the landscape of war.
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private
military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services,
training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing
War , Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved
in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether
they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical
prosecution of warfare. Her concern is with the ius in
bello (right conduct in war) strand of just war theory.Just
war theorizing is generally built on the assumption that states,
and states alone, wield a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
Who holds responsibility for the actions of PMCs? What ethical
standards might they be required to observe? How might deviations
from such standards be punished? The privatization of warfare poses
significant challenges because of its reliance on a statist view of
the world. Eckert argues that the tradition of just war
theory-which predates the international system of states-can evolve
to apply to this changing world order. With an eye toward the
practical problems of military command, Eckert delves into
particular cases where PMCs have played an active role in armed
conflict and derives from those cases the modifications necessary
to apply just principles to new agents in the landscape of war.
eBook