Doctoral Dissertation Research: Policing the favela: New Brazilian security practices in transnational and local context

博士论文研究：贫民窟治安：跨国和地方背景下的巴西新安全实践

• 批准号: 1224220
• 负责人: Catherine Lutz
• 金额: $ 1.34万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1224220&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Policing; favela

Brown University doctoral candidate Stephanie Savell, supervised by Dr. Catherine Lutz, will undertake research on the transnational circulation of security expertise, state authority, and citizenship. International and domestic security operations are often treated as distinct but frequently military institutions and overseas deployments may affect domestic policing. The researcher's goal is to discover if and why it matters for policing and for the urban poor that security knowledge and practices circulate internationally, and that the distinct boundaries between police and military are fading.The research will focus on a Brazilian policing model that employs techniques refined while leading the United Nations' peacekeeping force in Haiti. Data collection will be carried out in a Rio de Janeiro shanty town or favela where police forces are active. She will employ a mix of social science research methods including interviews, life histories, and participant observation, to understand how residents, police and military forces, and policymakers operate, experience, and assess this policing model. This research is important because it takes a novel ethnographic approach to studying security, which is more often studied with other social science methods. Ethnography can shed light on what security means in everyday lives, highlighting the surprises and contradictions of lived experiences of policing policy. This is an urgent task in an era when many governments are eager to implement policies to diminish crime-related urban violence. Moreover, this study will further our theoretical understandings of state sovereignty, the interlinking of security and human rights, militarized policing, and the consequences of this increasingly common type of state authority for marginalized city residents. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

布朗大学博士生斯蒂芬妮·萨维尔将在凯瑟琳·卢茨博士的指导下，从事安全专业知识、国家权威和公民身份的跨国流通研究。国际安全行动和国内安全行动往往被视为不同的行动，但军事机构和海外部署往往可能影响国内治安。这位研究人员的目标是发现安全知识和实践在国际上传播是否以及为什么对警察和城市穷人很重要，警察和军队之间的明显边界正在消失。研究重点将放在巴西的警察模式上，这种模式在领导联合国驻海地维和部队的同时采用了改进的技术。数据收集将在里约热内卢的棚户区或贫民窟进行，那里的警察部队很活跃。她将采用包括访谈、生活史和参与者观察在内的社会科学研究方法，了解居民、警察和军队以及政策制定者如何操作、体验和评估这种警务模式。这项研究之所以重要，是因为它采用了一种新的人种学方法来研究安全，这种方法更多地是用其他社会科学方法来研究的。民族志可以阐明安全在日常生活中意味着什么，突出警察政策生活经历的惊喜和矛盾。在一个许多政府都渴望实施减少与犯罪有关的城市暴力的政策的时代，这是一项紧迫的任务。此外，这项研究将加深我们对国家主权、安全与人权的相互联系、军事化警务以及这种日益普遍的国家权威对边缘化城市居民的后果的理论理解。资助这项研究还支持研究生的教育。