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Surveillance
Power, Problems, and Politics
Sean P. Hier (Edited by), Josh Greenberg (Edited by)
9780774816120
Paperback / softback, published 1 January 2010
296 pages, 1 chart, 11 tables
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.44 kg
This particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases.
Surveillance is commonly rationalized as a practice to address existing political or social problems such as crime, fraud, and terrorism. This book explores how surveillance, disguised as managing risk or reducing harm, can cause a range of problems, including poverty, over-policing, and exclusion. The scholars represented in this volume 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. Surveillance addresses and asks 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?
Foreword / Kevin D. Haggerty Introduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg 1 The Politics of Surveillance: Power, Paradigms, and the Field of Visibility / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg Part 1: Stigma, Morality, and Social Control 2 Kid-Visible: Childhood Obesity, Body Surveillance, and the Techniques of Care / Charlene D. Elliott 3 Police Surveillance of Male-with-Male Public Sex in Ontario, 1983-94 / Kevin Walby 4 A Kind of Prohibition: Targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario's Interdiction List, 1953-75 / Scott Thompson Part 2: Environmental Design, Consumerism, and Privacy 5 Natural Surveillance, Crime Prevention, and the Effects of Being Seen / Patrick F. Parnaby and C. Victoria Reed 6 Administering the Dead: Mass Death and the Problem of Privacy / Joseph Scanlon 7 Identity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects / Sheryl N. Hamilton Part 3: Genetics, Security, and Biometrics 8 From Bodily Integrity to Genetic Surveillance: The Impacts of DNA Identification in Criminal Justice / Neil Gerlach 9 Communication and the Sorrows of Empire: Surveillance and Information Operations "Blowback" in the Global War on Terrorism / Dwayne Winseck 10 Bio-Benefits: Technologies of Criminalization, Biometrics, and the Welfare System / Shoshana Magnet Part 4: Participatory Surveillance and Resistance 11 Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piché 12 Cell Phones and Surveillance: Mobile Technology, States, and Social Movements / Simon J. Kiss 13 Subverting Surveillance Systems: Access to Information Mechanisms as Tools of Counter-Surveillance / Laura Huey References Index