{"product_id":"surveillance-and-the-dossier-record-keeping-vulnerability-and-reputational-politics-hardback-9781487542153","title":"Surveillance and the Dossier; Record Keeping, Vulnerability, and Reputational Politics (Hardback) 9781487542153","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSurveillance and the Dossier\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRecord Keeping, Vulnerability, and Reputational Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCristina Plamadeala (Edited by), Özgün Erdener Topak (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487542153\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 May 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e298 pages, 9 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurveillance and the Dossier\u003c\/em\u003e delves into how dossiers, both paper-based and digital, have been used by governments both historically and in contemporary times to inflict various forms of violence upon the public, including psychological, physical, and reputational. \u003cbr\u003eThis volume establishes dossier creation as the foundational practice of all bureaucracies, despite differences in how it has been weaponized as a technique of power by different systems. In nine case studies, ranging from police dossiers in Nazi Germany to China's Hukou family dossier system, this book examines the evolution of surveillance in societies. Surveillance and society researchers Cristina Plamadeala and Özgün Erdener Topak engage in a diverse yet comprehensive study of this surveillance tool, looking at examples such as dossiers implicating former members of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), dossiers used in Cold War-era Australia to monitor migrants from the Soviet Union, dossiers of colonial Japan’s Unit 731, deployed in Manchukuo, in Northeast China, and dossiers mobilized for Canada’s World War II conscription program. Deeply relevant and imperative, \u003cem\u003eSurveillance and the Dossier\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to understand the links between the infliction of state-violence and surveillance.\u003cbr\u003eThis book demonstrates that dossiers serve as a valuable platform for understanding the past and present of surveillance societies across governments and countries.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Surveillance and the Dossier’: Key Issues\u003cbr\u003eCristina Plamadeala and Ozgun Erdener Topak   \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Change and Constancy: Individual and Group-Based Dossiers and their Evolution in German Police Intelligence\u003cbr\u003eChristoph Felix Butz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: China’s Household Register: From a \"Family Dossier\" to a \"Surveillance Platform\"\u003cbr\u003eMarcella Siqueira Cassiano\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: “Let’s Pull out Their Files and See”: The file and the reconfiguration of Zimbabwe’s post-coup surveillance architecture\u003cbr\u003eAllen Munoriyarwa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Dossier on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: Reputation, Denunciation, and the Surveillance of Soviet Migrants in Australia\u003cbr\u003eEbony Nilsson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Classify to Kill: Unit 731 and the Japanese Dossier of Settler Colonial Surveillance in Northeast China\u003cbr\u003eMidori Ogasawara\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Surveillance, Intelligence, and Policing in South America: Risks and dangers of automated profile building through OSINTs\u003cbr\u003eAlcides Eduardo dos Reis Peron\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Securitate Files, Dossiers and Fear: Dossierveillance in Communist Romania under Nicolae Ceauşescu (1965-89) \u003cbr\u003eCristina Plamadeala\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Our Files Are Never Closed: The Use of Private Sector Surveillance Dossiers in the Enforcement of Government Policy in WWII Canada 1943-1945\u003cbr\u003eScott Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Cataloging 'Enemies': Soviet Proscription Lists, Card Catalogs, and Kompromat \u003cbr\u003eOlga Velikanova\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword on the Dossier: (Some Notes on the Back)\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Monea and Joshua Reeves \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595786678552,"sku":"9781487542153","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/surveillance-and-the-dossier-record-keeping-vulnerability-and-reputational-politics-hardback-9781487542153","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}