2021
DOI: 10.1590/0102-137174/114
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Abstract: Security-whether public or private-is a key tool for managing populations and integral for creating urban spaces. This paper examines how mall security practices in São Paulo work to create safe and clean worlds for customers, distinguishing it from an cityscape that is seen as violent, dangerous, and populated with criminals. Drawing on five months of ethnographic research and interviews with the security team of the “Rivertown” shopping center in São Paulo and various private security employees, we show how … Show more

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“…Concerns about crime have evacuated many of the city's public spaces. In response, the shopping mall has grown up as an oasis of secure consumption and social interaction (Durão, Robb Larkins, and Fischmann, 2021; Robb Larkins, 2023). In the high‐end malls that we studied, one of which we feature here, hospitality guards are mainly concerned with two tasks.…”
Section: Hospitality Security In the Shopping Mallmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Concerns about crime have evacuated many of the city's public spaces. In response, the shopping mall has grown up as an oasis of secure consumption and social interaction (Durão, Robb Larkins, and Fischmann, 2021; Robb Larkins, 2023). In the high‐end malls that we studied, one of which we feature here, hospitality guards are mainly concerned with two tasks.…”
Section: Hospitality Security In the Shopping Mallmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As with other forms of domestic labor such as cleaning, cooking, ironing, gardening, driving, and looking after children, security care work reflects wider conditions of structural racism in Brazil and is generally performed by low‐income Northeastern migrants in São Paulo, many of Afro‐Brazilian descent. As a mode of protection, it draws on both on long‐standing cultural notions of cordiality and on the racialized, gendered, and classed labor of low‐level security guards themselves (Durão, Robb Larkins, and Fischmann, 2021, 14). We call this variety of security hospitality security (Robb Larkins, 2017), defining it as a combination of infrastructure, technology, and human labor deployed to produce a certain kind of urban space for middle‐ and upper‐class subjects.…”
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“…Por fim, quanto à estratégia de esferificação, outros fatores se apresentam. Durão, Larkins e Fischmann (2021), são pesquisadoras que estudaram especialmente a esferificação de shoppings. Segundo elas, os ambientes de compras dos shoppings promovem uma experiência de conforto e paz, através da mitigação de incômodos, como mendigos, ladrões, trânsito veloz e outros elementos desfavoráveis para a ideia de segurança.…”
Section: Os Modelos Alternativos De Segurança Públicaunclassified