{"product_id":"the-sensation-of-security-9781501769733","title":"The Sensation of Security","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sensation of Security \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplores how private security guards are a permanent, conspicuous fixture of everyday life in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003esensação de segurança\u003c\/i\u003e (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\u003ci\u003e sensação de segurança\u003c\/i\u003e indexes an outward-facing task of allaying fears of crime and maintaining order in elite spaces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Private Guards and Social Order\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 1: The 12 por 36\u003cbr\u003e 1. The \u003ci\u003eCarreira das Armas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 2: The Anger of Other Men\u003cbr\u003e 2. Hospitality Security\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 3: Small Thefts\u003cbr\u003e 3. Securing Affective Landscapes of Leisure and Consumption\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 4: Routine Suffering\u003cbr\u003e 4. Emotional Labor in the Security Command Center\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 5: Securing Life\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Selling the Sensation of Security\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 6: The Post of the Future\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409371177303,"sku":"9781501769733","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501769733.jpg?v=1730506571","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sensation-of-security-9781501769733","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}