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Making Surveillance States
Transnational Histories
Robert Heynen (Edited by), Emily van der Meulen (Edited by)
9781487522483
Paperback / softback, published 18 September 2019
360 pages, 10 figures
22.9 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.54 kg
Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taking a transnational approach, the book challenges us to rethink the presumed novelty of contemporary surveillance practices, while developing critical analyses of the ways in which state surveillance has profoundly shaped the emergence of contemporary societies. Contributors engage with a range of surveillance practices, including medical and disease surveillance, systems of documentation and identification, and policing and security. These approaches enable us to understand how surveillance has underpinned the emergence of modern states, sustained systems of state security, enabled practices of colonial rule, perpetuated racist and gendered forms of identification and classification, regulated and policed migration, shaped the eugenically inflected medicalization of disability and sexuality, and contained dissent. While surveillance is thus bound up with complex relations of power, it is also contested. Emerging from the book is a sense of how state actors understood and legitimized their own surveillance practices, as well as how these practices have been implemented in different times and places. At the same time, contributors explore the myriad ways in which these systems of surveillance have been resisted, challenged, and subverted.
List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Unpacking State Surveillance: Histories, Theories, and Global Contexts Section One: Medical, Disease, and Health Surveillance 2. "Coolie" Control: State Surveillance and the Labour of Disinfection across the Late Victorian British Empire 3. Surveillance, Medicine, and the Misterios de la Naturaleza: Campaigns to "Cure" Deafness in Late-Nineteenth Century Mexico City 4. "Masquerading as a Woman": The South African Disguises Acts and the Ghosts of Apartheid Surveillance, 1906-2004 Section Two: Identification, Regulation, and Colonial Rule 5. The Penal Surveillant Assemblage: Attainder and Tickets of Leave in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia 6. Controlling Transnational Asian Mobilities: A Comparison of Documentary Systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940s 7. Bodies as Risky Resources: Japan’s Colonial Identification Systems in Northeastern China 8. A State of Exception: Frameworks and Institutions of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians, 1948-1967 Section Three: State Security, Policing, and Dissent 9. Dossierveillance in Communist Romania: Collaboration with the Securitate, 1945-1989 10. The FBI and the American Friends Service Committee: Surveilling United States Religious Expression in the Cold War Era 11. "When under Surveillance, Always Put on a Good Show": Representations of Surveillance in the United States Underground Press, 1968-1972 12. "That’s Not a Conversation That Belongs to the Museum": The (In)visibility of Surveillance History at Police Museums in Ontario, Canada Afterword List of Contributors
Foreword by David Lyon
Acknowledgments
Emily van der Meulen, Ryerson University and Robert Heynen, York University
Jacob Steere-Williams, College of Charleston
Holly Caldwell, Chestnut Hill College
B Camminga, University of Wits
Ian Warren, Deakin University and Darren Palmer, Deakin University
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape and Margaret Allen, University of Adelaide
Midori Ogasawara, Queen’s University
Ahmad H Sa’di, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Cristina Plamadeala, Concordia University
Kathryn Montalbano, Neumann University
Elisabetta Ferrari, University of Pennsylvania and John Remensperger, University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Ferguson, University of Ottawa, Justin Piché, University of Ottawa, and Kevin Walby, University of Winnipeg
Simone Browne, University of Texas at Austin
Index