Global South to the Rescue : Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

ISBN-13: 9780415577953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Paul Amar

Opis

This text introduces globalization studies to new trends in police and military studies, highlights the cultural and political complexities of the global south, and develops new frameworks that articulate the best of feminist, political-economic, international-relations, and ethnographic perspectives.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Introduction: Global South to the Rescue  Section One: Globalizing Peacekeeper Identities  2. Peacexploitation? Interrogating Labor Hierarchies and Global Sisterhood Amongst Indian and Uruguayan Female Peacekeepers  3. Martial Races and Enforcement Masculinities of the Global South: Weaponising Fijian, Chilean, and Salvadoran Postcoloniality in the Mercenary Sector  4. The Pacification of Soldiering, and the Militarization of Development: Contradictions Inherent in Provincial Reconstruction in Afghanistan  Section Two: Assertive "Regional Internationalisms"  5. Turkey: An Emerging Hub of Globalization and Internationalist Humanitarian Actor?  6. Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model  7. Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance  8. Kenya and International Security: Enabling Globalization, Stabilising ‘Stateness,’ and Deploying ‘Humanitarian Counterterrorism’  Section Three: Emergent Alternative Paradigms  9. Bolivarian Globalization?: The New Left’s Struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean to Negotiate a Revolutionary Approach to Humanitarian Militarism and International Intervention  10. Brazil’s Grand Design for Combining Global South Solidarity and National Interests: A Discussion of Peacekeeping Operations in Haiti and Timor  11. Egypt as a Globalist Power: Mapping Military Participation in Decolonizing Internationalism, Repressive Entrepreneurialism, and Humanitarian Globalization between the Revolutions of 1952 and 2011

O autorze

Paul Amar is an Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is a political sociologist and urban ethnographer specializing in security politics, police-military relations, humanitarian law and authoritarian states. He researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Amar has worked at the United Nations, and on behalf of community struggles to fight police brutality and military atrocity, and to strengthen institutions of citizenship and cultures of legality.