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The Security Archipelago : Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism
- 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--Egypt--Cairo.
- Neoliberalism.
- Sex--Political aspects--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Sex--Political aspects--Egypt--Cairo.
- Human security--Political aspects--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Human security.
- Human security--Political aspects--Egypt--Cairo.
- Sex--Rio de Janeiro--Brazil.
- Sex.
- Sex--Cairo--Egypt.
- Local Subjects:
- Human security--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Human security--Egypt--Cairo.
- Neoliberalism.
- Sex--Political aspects--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Sex--Political aspects--Egypt--Cairo.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Paul Amar describes new forms of governance emerging in the Global South, partly in opposition to neoliberalism.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Archipelago of New Security-State; Chapter One - Mooring a New Global Order between Cairo and Rio de Janeiro: World Summits and Human-Security Laboratories; Chapter Two - Policing the Perversions of Globalization in Rio de Janeiro and Cairo: Emerging Parastatal Security Regimes Confront Queer Globalisms; Chapter Three - Muhammad Atta's Urbanism: Rescuing Islam, Saving Humanity, and Securing Gender's Proper Place in Cairo
- Chapter Four - Saving the Cradle of Samba in Rio de Janeiro: Shadow-State Uprisings, Urban Infranationalisms, and the Racial Politics of Human SecurityChapter Five - 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; Chapter Six - 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; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822397564
- 0822397560
- OCLC:
- 1170867240
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