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Private Security and the Public--Private Divide: Contested Lines of Distinction and Modes of Governance in the Stockholm-Arlanda Security Assemblage

News: Dec 05, 2011

Authors: Joakim Berndtsson and Maria Stern

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This article investigates how key actors in the security assemblage at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport make sense of their roles in relation to public–private distinctions. While central to the ways in which security actors understand themselves and each other, closer inspection reveals that the drawing of these lines is also highly ambivalent and contested—in relation to questions of control and regulation, authority, as well as security rationalities. Further, “private–private” and “public–public” contestations also are informed by the obdurate public–private distinction.

Publ.: International Political Sociology, Vol. 5, Issue 4, pp: 408-425, December 2011.

Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ips.2011.5.issue-4/issuetoc
 

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