Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780415953924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 360 str.

Torin Monahan

Opis

Featuring contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines, this book aims to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Torin Monahan is assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of the Routledge book Globalization, Technology Change, And Public Education (2005).