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Paul Amar - The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism - 9780822353843 - V9780822353843
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The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism

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Description for The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism Hardback. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Paul Amar describes new forms of governance emerging in the Global South, partly in opposition to neoliberalism. Series: A Social Text Book. Num Pages: 328 pages, 41 photographs, 5 figures. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
A Social Text Book
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822353843
SKU
V9780822353843
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About Paul Amar
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.

Reviews for The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism
"The Security Archipelago is a singular book by a unique scholar. Paul Amar works in English, Arabic, and Portuguese, and he studies security regimes in a comparative framework encompassing the Middle East, North and South America, and Europe. Combining research that he has done in Brazil and Egypt on the emergence of new forms of security and new grammars of ... Read more

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