Securing the suburbs : how elites use policing to protect their advantages
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the predominantly white, strongly liberal, extremely affluent suburb of Piedmont, California, residents mobilize security strategies to protect their advantages and invoke the language of security to justify their suburb's exclusivity. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation, I argue that residents collaborate with their police department to surveille the "out of place" and thereby direct suspicion toward people of color and the poor and working class. Residents and police construct multiple layers of security to limit the presence of outsiders within Piedmont. They apply a market logic to government services to justify why suburban elites deserve more attentive, proactive police than people elsewhere. They claim affinity with the surrounding city of Oakland to recuperate cultural capital threatened by their suburb's homogeneity. Suburban security strategies perpetuate exclusion based on race and class, and suburban elites use the language of security to reconcile exclusive practices with their stated inclusive ideals.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Magliozzi, Devon Nicole |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Fields, Corey |
| Thesis advisor | Saperstein, Aliya |
| Degree committee member | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Degree committee member | Fields, Corey |
| Degree committee member | Saperstein, Aliya |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Devon Magliozzi. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Devon Nicole Magliozzi
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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