The sensation of security: private guards and social order in Brazil

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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...

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Main Author: Robb Larkins, Erika 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca London Cornell University Press 2023
In:Year: 2023
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Human Security > Brazil
Private security services > Brazil > Employees
Private security services > Brazil > Sociological aspects
public safety > Brazil
Racism against Black people > Brazil
Urban violence > Social aspects > Brazil
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
security in Brazil, police violence in Brazil, racial capitalism in Brazil, private security in Rio de Janeiro, urban violence in Brazil, private security industry, racialized inequality in Brazil
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary: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 fear of crime and maintaining order in elite spaces, it also refers to the emotional labor and embodied worlds that security workers navigate.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 189 Seiten), 29 schwarz-weiße Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501769757
9781501769764
DOI:10.1515/9781501769757
Access:Restricted Access