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Author Robb Larkins, Erika, 1977- author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : illustrations.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Police/Worlds: studies in security, crime, and governance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "Drawing on long term ethnographic research with security laborers, managers, company owners, and elite global consultants, The Sensation of Security 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Human security.
Private security services -- Employees.
Public safety.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Robb Larkins, Erika, 1977- Sensation of security : private guards and social order in Brazil. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, c2023 viii, 189 pages Police/Worlds: studies in security, crime, and governance 9781501769764
ISBN 9781501769764 (print)
9781501769757 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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