Global South to the Rescue (eBook, PDF)

Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries
Redaktion: Amar, Paul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to introduce globalization studies to new trends in police and military studies, highlight the cultural and political complexities of the global south, and develop new frameworks that articulate the best of feminist, political-economic, international-relations, and ethnographic perspectives.

This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135720285
• Artikelnr.: 57082333

Autorenporträt

Paul Amar is an Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is a political sociologist and urban ethnographer specializing in security politics, police-military relations, humanitarian law and authoritarian states. He researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Amar has worked at the United Nations, and on behalf of community struggles to fight police brutality and military atrocity, and to strengthen institutions of citizenship and cultures of legality.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Introduction: Global South to the Rescue Section One:
Globalizing Peacekeeper Identities 2. Peacexploitation? Interrogating Labor
Hierarchies and Global Sisterhood Amongst Indian and Uruguayan Female
Peacekeepers 3. Martial Races and Enforcement Masculinities of the Global
South: Weaponising Fijian, Chilean, and Salvadoran Postcoloniality in the
Mercenary Sector 4. The Pacification of Soldiering, and the Militarization
of Development: Contradictions Inherent in Provincial Reconstruction in
Afghanistan Section Two: Assertive "Regional Internationalisms" 5. Turkey:
An Emerging Hub of Globalization and Internationalist Humanitarian Actor?
6. Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria's Hybrid
Model 7. Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in
Global Governance 8. Kenya and International Security: Enabling
Globalization, Stabilising 'Stateness,' and Deploying 'Humanitarian
Counterterrorism' Section Three: Emergent Alternative Paradigms 9.
Bolivarian Globalization?: The New Left's Struggle in Latin America and the
Caribbean to Negotiate a Revolutionary Approach to Humanitarian Militarism
and International Intervention 10. Brazil's Grand Design for Combining
Global South Solidarity and National Interests: A Discussion of
Peacekeeping Operations in Haiti and Timor 11. Egypt as a Globalist Power:
Mapping Military Participation in Decolonizing Internationalism, Repressive
Entrepreneurialism, and Humanitarian Globalization between the Revolutions
of 1952 and 2011