The security archipelago : human-security states, sexuality politics, and the end of neoliberalism / Paul Ama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amar, Paul (Paul Edouard), 1968-

Series:

Social text books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human security--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Human security.

Human security--Egypt--Cairo.

Sex--Political aspects--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Sex.

Sex--Political aspects--Egypt--Cairo.

Neoliberalism.

Sex--Political aspects.

Egypt--Cairo.

Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Physical Description:

xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining the pivotal, trendsetting cases of Brazil and Egypt. Addressing gaps in the study of neoliberalism and biopolitics, Amar describes how coercive security operations and cultural rescue campaigns confronting waves of resistance have appropriated progressive, antimarket discourses around morality, sexuality, and labor. The products of these struggles-including powerful new police practices, religious politics, sexuality identifications, and gender normativities-have traveled across an archipelago, a metaphorical island chain of what the global security industry calls "hot spots." Homing in on Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Amar reveals the innovative resistances and unexpected alliances that have coalesced in new polities emerging from the Arab Spring and South America's Pink Tide. These have generated a shared modern governance model that he terms the "human-security state." Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the archipelago of new security-state uprisings

Mooring a new global order between Cairo and Rio de Janeiro : world summits and human-security laboratories

Policing the perversions of globalization in Rio de Janeiro and Cairo : emerging parastatal security regimes confront queer globalisms

Muhammad Atta's urbanism : rescuing Islam, saving humanity, and securing gender's proper place in Cairo

Saving the cradle of Samba in Rio de Janeiro : shadow-state uprisings, urban infranationalisms, and the racial politics of human security

Operation Princess in Rio de Janeiro: rescuing sex slaves, challenging the labor-evangelical alliance, and defining the sexuality politics of an emerging human-security superpower

Feminist insurrections and the Egyptian revolution : harassing police, recognizing classphobias, and everting the logics of the human-security state in Tahrir Square

Conclusion: the end of neoliberalism?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822353843

0822353849

9780822353980

0822353989

OCLC:

813540821