Surveillance: Power, Problems, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780774816113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 296 str.

Sean P. Hier;Josh Greenberg

Opis

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, disguised as managing risk or reducing harm, can cause a range of problems, including poverty, over-policing, and exclusion.This volume presents essays by Canadian scholars who interrogate the moral and ideological bases and material effects of surveillance practices and systems in diverse cultural and institutional arenas: policing, consumerism, welfare administration, disaster management, popular culture, moral regulation, news media, social movements, and anti-terrorism campaigns.The contributors address and ask us to consider the question: How can we ensure a future in which surveillance and its consequences are not accepted as normal, or necessary, features of modern life? This book is a valuable resource for students and practitioners of sociology, criminology, anthropology, history, political science, and communications and culture.