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.

由凯瑟琳·卢茨（Catherine Lutz）博士监督的布朗大学博士候选人斯蒂芬妮·萨维尔（Stephanie Savell）将对安全专业知识，国家权威和公民身份进行跨国流通研究。国际和国内安全行动通常被视为独特的，但经常是军事机构，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散发出来的警务和城市贫困人口是否重要，而警察和军事之间的不同界限正在消失。该研究将侧重于巴西警务模型，该模型采用了在领导联合国在海蒂的维持和平部队时进行改进的技术。数据收集将在Rio de Janeiro Shanty镇或警察部队活跃的Favela进行。她将采用社会科学研究方法的混合，包括访谈，生活史和参与者观察，以了解居民，警察和军事力量以及政策制定者如何运作，经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型的人种学方法来研究安全，这是通过其他社会科学方法更经常研究的。民族志可以阐明安全在日常生活中的意义，从而强调了警务政策经历的惊喜和矛盾。在许多政府渴望实施政策以减少与犯罪相关的城市暴力行为的时代，这是一项紧迫的任务。此外，这项研究将进一步提高我们对国家主权的理论理解，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威对边缘化城市居民的后果。资助这项研究还支持研究生的教育。