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Guillermina Seri - Seguridad, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Seguridad

Crime, Police Power, and Democracy in Argentina

Av Guillermina Seri

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Beskrivning
This study of police governance draws on over ninety interviews conducted with Argentine police officers. In Argentina, a rising fear of crime has led to the politics of Seguridad, a concept that amalgamates personal safety with state security. As a new governing rationale, Seguridad is strengthening forms of police intervention that weaken the democracy. As they target crime, the police have the power to deny rights, deciding whether an individual is a citizen or a criminal suspect - the latter often being attributed to members of vulnerable groups. This study brings together key issues of governance that involve the police, democracy, and the quality of citizenship. It sheds light on how the police act as gatekeepers of citizenship and administrators of rights and law. Here, the rhetoric of Seguridad is seen as an ideological framework that masks inequality and unites "good" citizens. Seguridad shows how police practices should be part of our understanding of regimes and will appeal to anyone concerned with security forces, as well as researchers in democratic theory and Latin American politics.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-03-22
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781441145789
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Guillermina Seri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Union College, NY, USA. She has published journal articles and contributed chapters to several books, including State Violence and Genocide in Latin America (Esparza et al, eds; Routledge, 2009). She is the co-editor with Edwardo Estevez of the upcoming collected work, Studying the Police from Contemporary Latin America.

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This is a rich and evocative book that makes a significant contribution to police studies, regime theory, and, more broadly, political theory. The work deepens our understanding of policing as a form of governance, as the manifestation of the state at the ground level; police possess kingly prerogatives, the author argues, including the power of life and death. Seri shows how police act as gatekeepers of citizenship and administrators of rights and law—if they determine one is worthy--and how the rhetoric of seguridad is in essence an ideological framework that masks inequality and unites 'decent' citizens. The author challenges mainstream perspectives of 'democratic policing,' questioning the assumption that police in democracies naturally act in lawful ways, and suggests a deep incompatibility between policing and democratic functioning.

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