Paul Amar

The Security Archipelago

Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353980
• ISBN-10: 0822353989
• Artikelnr.: 36692266

Autorenporträt

Paul Amar is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A political scientist and anthropologist, he has worked as a journalist in Egypt, a police reformer in Brazil, and a United Nations conflict resolution and economic development specialist.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Archipelago of New Security-State Uprisings 1
1. Mooring a New Global Order between Cairo and Rio de Janeiro: World
Summits and Human-Security Laboratories 39
2. Policing the Perversions of Globalization in Rio de Janeiro and Cairo:
Emerging Parastatal Security Regimes Confront Queer Globalisms 65
3. Muhammad Atta's Urbanism: Rescuing Islam, Saving Humanity, and Securing
Gender's Proper Place in Cairo 99
4. Saving the Cradle of Samba in Rio de Janeiro: Shadow-State Uprisings,
Urban Infranationalisms, and the Racial Politics of Human Security 139
5. 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 172
6. Feminist Insurrections and the Egyptian Revolution: Harassing Police,
Recognizing Classphobias, and Everting the Logics of the Human-Security
State in Tahrir Square 200
Conclusion. The End of Neoliberalism? 235
Notes 253
References 261
Index 297