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

布朗大学博士候选人Stephanie Savell将在Catherine Lutz博士的指导下，对安全专业知识、国家权力和公民身份的跨国流通进行研究。国际和国内安全行动通常被视为不同的，但经常是军事机构和海外部署可能会影响国内警务。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，以及警察和军队之间明显的界限正在消失。这项研究将集中在巴西的一种警务模式上，该模式采用了在领导联合国驻海地维和部队时改进的技术。数据收集将在巴西里约热内卢的一个棚户区或贫民窟进行，那里有警察部队。她将采用多种社会科学研究方法，包括访谈、生活史和参与者观察，以了解居民、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。这项研究很重要，因为它采用了一种新的民族志方法来研究安全，这通常是与其他社会科学方法一起研究的。民族志可以揭示日常生活中的安全意味着什么，突出警务政策的生活经验的惊喜和矛盾。在许多政府急于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，本研究将进一步加深我们对国家主权、安全和人权的相互联系、军事化警务以及这种日益普遍的国家权力类型对边缘化城市居民的影响的理论理解。资助这项研究也支持了研究生的教育。

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.