The Sensation of Security : : Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil / / Erika Robb Larkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Larkins, Erika Robb,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (174 p.) :; 29 b&w halftones

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 fear of crime and maintaining order in elite spaces, it also refers to the emotional labor and embodied worlds that security workers navigate.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction PRIVATE GUARDS AND SOCIAL ORDER -- THE 12 POR 36 -- 1 THE CARREIRA DAS ARMAS -- THE ANGER OF OTHER MEN -- 2 HOSPITALITY SECURITY -- SMALL THEFTS -- 3 SECURING AFFECTIVE LANDSCAPES OF LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION -- ROUTINE SUFFERING -- 4 EMOTIONAL LABOR IN THE SECURITY COMMAND CENTER -- SECURING LIFE -- Epilogue SELLING THE SENSATION OF SECURITY -- THE POST OF THE FUTURE -- Notes -- References -- Index