Surveillance and security : technological politics and power in everyday life
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Surveillance and security : technological politics and power in everyday life
Routledge, c2006
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-321) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a volume of original contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines. The aim of the book is to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use. It is truly an interdisciplinary project that will find purchase in courses on security studies and the sociology of culture and the sociology of science. Courses on security studies and its impact on culture can be found in a variety of academic departments including STS, criminology, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, political science and justice studies.
Table of Contents
- 1: Questioning Surveillance and Security
- I: Neoliberal States
- 2: The State Goes Home
- 3: Soft Surveillance
- 4: Everyday Insecurities
- 5: Indoor Positioning and Digital Management
- 6: Technologies of Citizenship
- 7: The Surveillance Curriculum
- 8: "Don't Be Low Hanging Fruit"
- 9: Cop Watching in the Downtown Eastside
- 10: Defensive Surveillance
- II: Mobilities and Insecurities
- 11: Borderline Identities
- 12: "Divided We Move"
- 13: Why Where You Are Matters
- 14: Using Intelligent Transport Systems to Track Buses and Passengers
- 15: The Bundling of Geospatial Information with Everyday Experience
- 16: Techniques of Preparedness
- 17: Technology Studies for Terrorists
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