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OverviewMaking 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Heynen , Emily van der MeulenPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781487503154ISBN 10: 1487503156 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 18 September 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews""" Making Surveillance States is a new and exciting take on the history of surveillance that will prove to be a valuable addition to the scholarship."" --William Staples, Department of Sociology, Director, Surveillance Studies Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence ""An invaluable book combining histories of the micro-practices of administrative control with the broad sweep of imperial politics in parts of the world long neglected by historiographies of surveillance and state building."" --Keith Breckenridge, The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg ""Making Surveillance States sets a high bar for future work in surveillance history. Providing a sorely needed transnational perspective, the authors show just how essential surveillance was to the development of the medical, judicial, and political systems we have today. This book is especially urgent in this politically explosive moment, as we try to grapple with what the future holds in store for 'surveillance states' around the globe."" --Joshua Reeves, New Media Communications, Oregon State University" Making Surveillance States sets a high bar for future work in surveillance history. Providing a sorely needed transnational perspective, the authors show just how essential surveillance was to the development of the medical, judicial, and political systems we have today. This book is especially urgent in this politically explosive moment, as we try to grapple with what the future holds in store for 'surveillance states' around the globe. - Joshua Reeves, New Media Communications, Oregon State University Making Surveillance States is a new and exciting take on the history of surveillance that will prove to be a valuable addition to the scholarship. - William Staples, Department of Sociology, Director, Surveillance Studies Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence An invaluable book combining histories of the micro-practices of administrative control with the broad sweep of imperial politics in parts of the world long neglected by historiographies of surveillance and state building. - Keith Breckenridge, The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Author InformationRobert Heynen is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University Emily van der Meulen is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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