"From Kidnaps to Contagious Diseases": Elite Rescue and the Strategic Expansion of the Transnational Security Consultancy Industry1 From Kidnaps to Contagious Diseases
"From Kidnaps to Contagious Diseases": Elite Rescue and the Strategic Expansion of the Transnational Security Consultancy Industry1 From Kidnaps to Contagious Diseases
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“从绑架到传染病”：精英救援与跨国安全咨询业的战略扩张1 从绑架到传染病
DOI：
10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00128.x
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发表时间：
2011
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2.4
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O'Reilly C
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这篇文章的重点是跨国安全咨询业及其在地球仪最敌对地区提供的精英救援服务。它描绘了领先公司通过连续的战略联盟的演变，从最初与拉丁美洲的绑架和赎金保险部门的合作到最近与国际紧急医疗援助提供者的合作。虽然这些全球流动性守护者积累的救援工具包主要针对保护那些冒险进入全球南部的富裕旅行者，但它也越来越多地过滤回全球北部，特别是通过“新自由主义（重新）转向”的过程进入美国本土。承认最近关于安全化遏制“越轨”旅行的跨学科讨论，越来越多的研究注意力被吸引到部署复杂的安全解决方案及其对环球旅行精英的便利。
This article focuses on the transnational security consultancy industry and its delivery of elite rescue services across the globe's most hostile regions. It charts the evolution of leading firms through successive strategic alliances, from initial collaborations with the kidnap and ransom insurance sector in Latin America to more recent ventures with international providers of emergency medical assistance. While the accumulated rescue toolkit of these guardians of global mobility is primarily targeted toward protecting those affluent travelers who venture into the global south, it is increasingly also filtering back up into the global north, most specifically into the American homeland by a process of “neo-liberal (re)turn.” Acknowledging recent cross-disciplinary discourse on the securitizedcontainmentof “deviant” travel, increased research attention is drawn to the deployment of sophisticated security solutions and theirfacilitationof the globetrotting elite.