Invading the Favela: Echoes of Police Practices among Brazil’s Urban Poor

Refusing to Be Governed: Urban Policing, Gang Violence, and the Politics of Evilness in an Afro‐Colombian Shantytown

“…As I elaborate below, such policing strategies are functional for producing orderly disorder , imagining civic communities and giving spatial coherence to civil society's economic and social anxieties around the black urban poor and other racialized bodies (Penglase ; Roussell ). When I first arrived in 2013, residents of the wealthy districts in the south of the city introduced me to the geography of fear and crime by discouraging me from going to the barrio de los negros matones (the district of the black killers).…”

Carceral Power in World Historical Context

“…Research examining the effects of neoliberalism on the American carceral power has prompted scholars to expose similar dynamics across the world. For example, in recent years, studies on European racist border fortification, policing practices against migrants from Middle East and Africa and the criminalization of immigration (Wacquant 2005, De Giorgi 2010Linke 2010;Barker 2012;Loyd, Mitchelson, and Burridge 2012;Melossi 2012;Bigo 2014;Besteman 2019;Orr and Ajzenstadt 2020), ethnographies of racialized policing in the urban spaces across Europe, and Latin America (Wacquant 2008;Samara 2010;Fassin 2013;Penglase 2013;Alves 2018;Salem and Bjørn 2020), studies of expanding policing and surveillance (Seri 2012;Dölek 2015;Gönen 2016;Mcquade 2019;Caldeiro 2000), wars on drugs around the world (Bourgois 2015;Gönen 2020;Osuna 2020), and the suppression of working class movements and dissidents through multiple techniques of police and prison across in different social contexts have been explored (Martin 2002;Uitermark and Nicholls 2014;Yonucu 2022).…”

The Programmatic and Institutional (Re‐)Configuration of the Swiss National Security Field

“…Scholars showed how the emergence of new threat narratives stimulated variegated reshufflings of agency landscapes in European and North American public administrations, for new narratives justified adjustments to existing mandates, new organizations, re‐allocations of public resources, and the redefinition of work relations between individual agencies. The new security studies literature traced how new, comprehensive all‐of‐government security coordination platforms emerged and institutional changes such as mergers of foreign and domestic intelligence, the policification of armed forces, and multi‐functional ‘security staffing’ of embassies unfolded (Bigo ; Penglase ). Looking beyond government, researchers also investigated how liberalization processes led to a privatization of some national security functions (Krahmann ; Leander ) as private actors acquired mandates in logistics, IT, critical infrastructure management (Aradau ), intelligence gathering and – in rare cases – military operations (Lund Petersen and Tjalve ).…”