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Author:   Tom Halford
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781487564124

ISBN 10:   1487564120
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   25 November 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Nightmares of the National Imaginary 1.1 The National Imaginary, Surveillance, Sousveillance, and Literature: The Last Word 1.2 The Canadian National Imaginary: The Dream of a Good and Decent People 1.3 Counter-Narratives of the National Imaginary: Nightmares of the Excluded Other 1.4 Surveillance as Social Sorting: Categories Change the Future 1.5 Sousveillance as Dialogue: Looking Back at the Powerful 1.6 Overview of the Sections to Follow Section One: Developing an Ethics of Sousveillance  2.1 Michael Winters’s This All Happened: The Artist as Imperfect Model for Sousveillance 2.2 Please Tell Me What the Poets Are Saying: Cyborgs, Flowers, and Impossible Metaphors in the Poetry of Ken Babstock, A.F. Moritz, Larissa Lai, and Rita Wong 2.3 Different Modes of Sousveillance in Lynn Coady’s Writing: Community, Literary, and Digital Section Two: Vulnerable People in Canada and the Damage of Surveillance 3.1 David Chariandy’s Brother: Systemic Racism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Urban Policing 3.2 Sharon Bala’s The Boat People: Bureaucracy and Two Faces of Canadian Immigration 3.3 Justin Ling's Missing from the Village: The Failure to See the Vulnerable Other Section Three: How Should We Look at Those Who Surveil? 4.1 David Adams Richards’s Principles to Live By: Principles to Sort By 4.2 Broken Principles: One Police Officer’s Relationship to Indigenous Identity in Katherena Vermette’s The Break 4.3 Foreign Radical: Watch Yourself! Conclusion: Enter the Nuance Machine Works Cited Index

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Tom Halford is a visiting assistant professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell.

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