RT Book
T1 The sensation of security: private guards and social order in Brazil
T2 Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance
A1 Robb Larkins, Erika 1977-
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1847917666
AB 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.
CN HV8291.B6
SN 9781501769757
SN 9781501769764
K1 Human Security : Brazil
K1 Private security services : Brazil : Employees
K1 Private security services : Brazil : Sociological aspects
K1 public safety : Brazil
K1 Racism against Black people : Brazil
K1 Urban violence : Social aspects : Brazil
K1 Social Science / Sociology / Urban
K1 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
DO 10.1515/9781501769757