Surveillance is commonly rationalized as a practice to address existing political or social problems such as crime, fraud, and terrorism. This book explores how surveillance systems can, under the guise of managing risk or reducing harm, cause or exacerbate a range of problems, including poverty, over-policing, suspicion, and exclusion. This volume presents essays written by Canadian scholars who interrogate the moral and ideological bases and the material effects of various surveillance practices and systems. The contributors explore the relationship between surveillance and social and political problems in a number of cultural locations and institutional arenas: policing, consumerism, welfare administration, disaster management, popular culture, moral regulation, news media, social movements, and anti-terrorism campaigns. These original theoretical and empirical essays examine and challenge us to consider the question: How can we ensure a future in which the consequences of surveillance are not taken for granted as normal, or necessary, features of modern life? The thought-provoking discussion of problems and potential solutions makes this book a valuable resource for students and practitioners of sociology, criminology, history, anthropology, political science, and communications and culture.
Author(s): Sean P. Hier, Josh Greenberg
Edition: 1
Publisher: UBC Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF 6x9 Format
Pages: 294
Tags: Electronic Surveillance: Social Aspects; Information Technology: Social Aspects; Social Control; Privacy, Right Of
Cover
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword: Surveillance and Political Problems
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Politics of Surveillance: Power, Paradigms, and the Field of Visibility
Part 1: Stigma, Morality, and Social Control
2 Kid-Visible: Childhood Obesity, Body Surveillance, and the Techniques of Care
3 Police Surveillance of Male-with-Male Public Sex in Ontario, 1983-94
4 A Kind of Prohibition: Targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s Interdiction List, 1953-75
Part 2: Environmental Design, Consumerism, and Privacy
5 Natural Surveillance, Crime Prevention, and the Effects of Being Seen
6 Administering the Dead: Mass Death and the Problem of Privacy
7 Identity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects
Part 3: Genetics, Security, and Biometrics
8 From Bodily Integrity to Genetic Surveillance: The Impacts of DNA Identification in Criminal Justice
9 Communication and the Sorrows of Empire: Surveillance and Information Operations “Blowback” in the Global War on Terrorism
10 Bio-Benefits: Technologies of Criminalization, Biometrics, and the Welfare System
Part 4: Participatory Surveillance and Resistance
11 Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001
12 Cell Phones and Surveillance: Mobile Technology, States, and Social Movements
13 Subverting Surveillance Systems: Access to Information Mechanisms as Tools of Counter-Surveillance
References
Contributors
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