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OverviewExamines the governing roles of the police in Argentina, focusing on Seguridad, which conflates personal safety with state security. This title brings together key issues of governance that involve the police, democracy, and the quality of citizenship. It shows how police practices should be part of our understanding of regimes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Guillermina SeriPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9781441145789ISBN 10: 1441145788 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 22 March 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Policing Inseguridad Chapter 2. Inseguridad: How We Experience It Chapter 3. Seguridad, a Governmental dispositif Chapter 4. Police Governance, Gente, and Delincuentes Chapter 5. Democracy? The Police, the State, and Their Regimes Chapter 6. A Sovereign's Multiple Heads Conclusion. (Un)Protecting LivesReviewsThis 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. -- J. Patrice McSherry, Professor of Political Science, Long Island University Building from a series of interviews with police agents, Seri's book expands into an analysis of contemporary politics in Argentina and, from there, a fully-fledged critique of seguridad. Insightful and incisive, powerful and provocative, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of police power, the logic of sovereignty and the violence performed in the name of security. -- Mark Neocleous, Professor of the Critique of Political Economy Brunel University, UK Demonstrating how crime fears--often forged through a relationship between the media and politics--Guillermina Seri's carefully researched, Seguirdad: Crime, Police Power, and Democracy in Argentina, demonstrates brilliantly how police, as 'the state's capillary arms,' assist in making an unequal and fragmented society appear to be 'democratically' governed. -- Martha K. Huggins, author of Political Policing (Duke) and Violence Workers (U, of California) Author InformationGuillermina 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 Eduardo Estévez of the upcoming collected work, Studying the Police from Contemporary Latin America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |