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Security archipelago : human-security states, sexuality politics, and the end of neoliberalism
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- Online
- Summary
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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.
Details
- Creator
- Paul Amar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press Books, 2013
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9780822397564, 9780822353843, 9781299784437, 9780822353980, 0822397560, 0822353989, 1299784437, 0822353849
- OCLC
- ocn855898053
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The Archipelago of New Security-State -- Mooring a New Global Order between Cairo and Rio de Janeiro: World Summits and Human-Security Laboratories -- Policing the Perversions of Globalization in Rio de Janeiro and Cairo: Emerging Parastatal Security Regimes Confront Queer Globalisms -- Muhammad Atta's Urbanism: Rescuing Islam, Saving Humanity, and Securing Gender's Proper Place in Cairo -- Saving the Cradle of Samba in Rio de Janeiro: Shadow-State Uprisings, Urban Infranationalisms, and the Racial Politics of Human Security -- 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 -- Feminist Insurrections and the Egyptian Revolution: Harassing Police, Recognizing Classphobias, and Everting the Logics of the Human-Security State in Tahrir Square -- Conclusion -- The End of Neoliberalism?