Border policing on the docks: characterizing the everyday security programs in major Brazilian ports

• Grant number: 22/10622-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: February 08, 2023
• End date: October 24, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Sergio França Adorno de Abreu
• Grantee: Gabriel Antonio Cabeça Patriarca
• Supervisor: Adam Crawford
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of York, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/02709-3 - Networks against crime: the mechanisms of formation, stability or change of port security networks, BP.DR

Abstract

Mentions of Brazilian ports have become common in journalistic coverage and academic production on organized crime, although they remain practically unexplored by social scientists. The complex task of port security, in particular, highlights several topics of new theoretical perspectives in policing studies, in which the research agendas see the need to treat entrenched assumptions as open questions. Even in these border sites, where security is usually thought of as a state responsibility, a plurality of actors and programs are increasingly articulated in everyday routine. This project will continue a precursor research on the security of major Brazilian ports. In order to broaden and deepen the mapping of networks between the actors involved in the security of the ports of Santos and Paranaguá, which is the focus of the main research supported by FAPESP, this specific project for BEPE intends to delve deeper into the programs created and exercised in the everyday security of these border sites. The objective is to explore the characteristics of these everyday programs. Who are the actors involved in steering and rowing the everyday programs of port security? How are these programs carried out using certain technologies and measures? What mentalities or logics underlie them? To explore these questions, the research will draw on interviews, observations, journalistic news and court documents, which will be systematized by means of Content Analysis procedures. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GABRIEL PATRIARCA. Policiamento plural: perspectivas teóricas e agenda de pesquisa. Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, v. 16, n. 3, 2023-10-09. (22/10622-8, 21/02709-3)