Paul Amar

Paul Amar is a political sociologist and urban ethnographer specializing in security politics, police-military relations, humanitarian law and authoritarian states. His writings develop comparative analyses of new forms of governance and urban culture in the Global South. In particular, he researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East. In the past, Dr. Amar worked at the United Nations in New York, as a journalist in Egypt, and in anti-racist NGO projects in Brazil.