Bibliograph

The Sensation of Security, Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil, Erika Robb Larkins

Type

Label

The Sensation of Security, Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil, Erika Robb Larkins

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Sensation of Security

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Erika Robb Larkins

Series statement

Police/Worlds: studies in security, crime, and governance

Sub title

Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil

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 laborers, 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. Larkins shows how guards communicate a sensação de segurança (a sensation of security) to clients and customers who have the capital to pay for it. Cultivated through performances by security laborers, the sensation of security is a set of culturally shaped racialized and gendered impressions related to safety, order, well-being, and cleanliness. While the sensação de segurança indexes an outward-facing task of allaying fears of crime and maintaining order in elite spaces, it also refers to the emotional labor and embodied worlds that security workers navigate

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Private guards and social order in Brazil

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