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Surveillance : power, problems, and politics /

Surveillance is commonly rationalized as a practice to address existing political or social problems such as crime, fraud, and terrorism. This book also explores how surveillance systems can, under the guise of managing risk or reducing harm, cause or exacerbate a range of problems, including povert...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-, Greenberg, Joshua, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: Surveillance and Political Problems / Kevin D. Haggerty
  • Introduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg
  • 1. Politics of Surveillance: Power, Paradigms, and the Field of Visibility / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg
  • pt. 1. Stigma, Morality, and Social Control
  • 2. Kid-Visible: Childhood Obesity, Body Surveillance, and the Techniques of Care / Charlene D. Elliott
  • 3. Police Surveillance of Male-with-Male Public Sex in Ontario, 1983-94 / Kevin Walby
  • 4. Kind of Prohibition: Targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario's Interdiction List, 1953-75 / Scott Thompson
  • pt. 2. Environmental Design, Consumerism, and Privacy
  • 5. Natural Surveillance, Crime Prevention, and the Effects of Being Seen / Patrick F. Parnaby and C. Victoria Reed
  • 6. Administering the Dead: Mass Death and the Problem of Privacy / Joseph Scanlon
  • 7. Identity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects / Sheryl N. Hamilton
  • pt. 3. Genetics, Security, and Biometrics
  • 8. From Bodily Integrity to Genetic Surveillance: The Impacts of DNA Identification in Criminal Justice / Neil Gerlach
  • 9. Communication and the Sorrows of Empire: Surveillance and Information Operations "Blowback" in the Global War on Terrorism / Dwayne Winseck
  • 10. Bio-Benefits: Technologies of Criminalization, Biometrics, and the Welfare System / Shoshana Magnet
  • pt. 4. Participatory Surveillance and Resistance
  • 11. Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piche
  • 12. Cell Phones and Surveillance: Mobile Technology, States, and Social Movements / Simon J. Kiss
  • 13. Subverting Surveillance Systems: Access to Information Mechanisms as Tools of Counter-Surveillance / Laura Huey.