Reclaiming the Streets

ISBN-13: 9781843920779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 256 str.

Roy Coleman

Opis

In an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV within the broader social relations out of which it has grown and consolidated. The aim of this book is to analyse the use of CCTV within this broader social, political and ideological context, focusing on relations between surveillance, power and social order, using Liverpool as case study. At the same time the book provides a study of social control in Liverpool city centre, exploring the development of, and meaning attributed to, social control practices by those at the centre of the implementation and management of these practices. As such the book is a study of the 'locally powerful', their organisation through the local state, and their perceptions of order and disorder in the city centre.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: 'The friendly eye in the sky' 2. The disappearing state: social control, social order and the state 3. Rediscovering the state: understanding camera surveillance as a social ordering practice 4. The neoliberal city and social control 5. From the dockyards to the Disney store: the historical trajectory of social control in Liverpool 6. State, partnership and power: excavating neoliberal rule in the city 7.Reclaiming the streets: the techniques and norms of contemporary social control 8. Conclusion: visualising the neoliberal city

O autorze

Roy Coleman is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Studies at Liverpool University.