The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: A Political Economy of Surveillance

ISBN-13: 9780415634472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 218 str.

Kirstie Ball; Laureen Snider

Opis

This book examines the role that business and governments play in shaping and promoting the growth of surveillance in societies today. A series of articles by internationally known surveillance scholars set out the implications, both positive and negative, of the massive surveillance complexes that dominate private and public spaces and all the institutions of modern life.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: Towards a Political Economy of Surveillance?  Part I: International Networks and Global Circuits of Surveillance  1. The New Military Urbanism  2. Promoting Global Identification: Corporations, IGOs and ID Card Systems  3. Pandemic Governance: Using Event-Based Surveillance to Manage Emerging Infectious Diseases  4. The SAIC-SIEMENS ‘Super-Panopticon’ in the Athens 2004 Olympics as a Case of ‘McVeillance’: The Surveillance Industrial Complex’s Unscrupulous Global Business  5. Insecurity as an Engineering Problem: The Technosecurity Network  Part II: Surveillance Capacity, Industrial Infrastructures and Resource Distribution  6. Critical Examination of the Role of Private Actors in the Fight Against Money Laundering – the Case of the UK Retail Banking Industry  7. Collaborative Surveillance: Configuring Contemporary Marketing Practice  8. The ‘Great Unwatched’ and the ‘Lightly Touched’: Surveillance and Stock Market Fraud  Part III: Ground Level Circulations  9. The Imagined City: Power, Mystification and Synoptic Surveillance  10. From Accountability Policy to Surveillance Practices in Higher Education  11. Surveillance and Subjectivity: Everyday Experiences of Surveillance Practices  12. CCTV in Barcelona: The Political Economy of Surveillance in the (Wannabe) Global City