The sensation of security : private guards and social order in Brazil / Erika Robb Larkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robb Larkins, Erika, 1977- author.

Series:

Police/worlds. Studies in security, crime, and governance.

Cornell scholarship online.

Police/worlds. Studies in security, crime, and governance

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private security services--Brazil--Sociological aspects.

Private security services.

Private security services--Brazil--Employees.

Public safety--Brazil.

Public safety.

Human security--Brazil.

Human security.

Racism against Black people--Brazil.

Racism against Black people.

Urban violence--Social aspects--Brazil.

Urban violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2023

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023.

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 labourers, 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.

Contents:

The 12 por 36

The Carreira das Armas: Masculinity and the Sensation of Security

The Anger of Other Men

Hospitality Security: Curating a Corporeal Sensation of Security

Small Thefts

Securing Affective Landscapes of Leisure and Consumption

Routine Suffering

Emotional Labor and the Sensation of Security in the Command Center

Securing Life

Epilogue: Selling the Sensation of Security: Continuities and Ruptures

The Post of the Future.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501769757

1501769758

9781501769764

1501769766

OCLC:

1365385135