The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism (a Social Text book) - Softcover

Amar, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822353989 ISBN 13: 9780822353980

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2013

Synopsis

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 global security industry calls "hot spots." Homing in on Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Amar reveals the innovative resistances and unexpected alliances that have coalesced in new polities emerging from the Arab Spring and South America's Pink Tide. These have generated a shared modern governance model that he terms the "human-security state."

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

“The ever-creative Paul Amar is a wonderfully engaging speaker and brilliant writer.”  -- Derek Gregory

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0822353989
• ISBN 13: 9780822353980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328