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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

Public security in Rio de Janeiro: Reflections on the militarization of life

, 2020
O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar reflexões sobre a militarização da política de Segurança Pública no Brasil e analisar o processo de remilitarização da cidade do Rio de Janeiro no decorrer da intervenção federal, em 2018. Propõe-se problematizar a chamada “crise do Estado” que justificou renovados processos de ocupação das Forças Armadas em favelas
Kilduff, Fernanda, Mariana Nicolau Oliveira, de Souza Barbosa Maia , Viviane   +2 more
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy, Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, Pamela Stephens   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explosive Ordnance Clearance in Lithuania in 1944–1946

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos
This article investigates the process of mine clearance in Lithuania between 1944 and 1946, conducted through the Soviet paramilitary organization OSOAVIACHIM.
Paulius Japertas
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

JAPAN’S SHIFT FROM PACIFISM: REARMAMENT AMID SECURITY CHALLENGES

Journal of International Studies
Amidst shifting security dynamics in East Asia, Japan faces an evolving strategic landscape, particularly in response to mounting threats from North Korea and China.
Hazwan Dani Abdul Kadir
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Riscos percebidos e vitimização de policiais civis e militares na (in)segurança pública Perceived risks and victimization of military and civil police in the public (in)security domain

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007
Este estudo se baseou em uma pesquisa maior que investigou características sócio-econômicas, qualidade de vida, condições de trabalho e de saúde de policiais militares e civis do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Para isso, foram triangulados métodos quantitativos (questionário anônimo, em amostra aleatória de conglomerados envolvendo 46 unidades ...
Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo, Edinilsa Ramos de Souza, Patrícia Constantino   +2 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Occupational stress in professionals of public security: a study with military agents of the Republican National Guard / Stress ocupacional em profissionais de segurança pública: um estudo com militares da Guarda Nacional Republicana

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2009
This work analyzes occupational stress in 95 Portuguese military agents of the Republican National Guard. We applied an evaluation protocol with measures of global stress, burnout, proactive coping, organizational commitment, satisfaction with life, and professional satisfaction/accomplishment.
Jorge M. P. Afonso, A. Rui Gomes
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Purging Minds Through Silencing Voices: Academic Freedom Under Islamic Republic of Iran's Security Apparatus Aftermath of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This piece examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalized censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, where universities have been reshaped into extensions of the security state through ideological vetting, pervasive surveillance, and the purging of dissenting ...
Arash Beidollahkhani
wiley   +1 more source