Overview

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?

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Author:   Sean P. Hier ,  Josh Greenberg
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780774816120

ISBN 10:   0774816120
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

This particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases. -- Benjamin J. Muller, Kings University College Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (3)

This particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases. -- Benjamin J. Muller, Kings University College * Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (3) *

In this sprightly volume, the wide tires of surveillance theory and propaganda meet the reality inducing roads of critical conceptual and empirical inquiry. The field of surveillance studies lurches forward as a result. This informative interdisciplinary work by Canadian scholars [the country in the forefront of surveillance studies] should be read by anyone interested in the richness, complexity, and varied consequences of both traditional and new surveillance techniques. - Gary T. Marx, professor emeritus of sociology at M.I.T.

Author Information

Sean P. Hier is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. Josh Greenberg is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Contributors: Charlene D. Elliott, Neil Gerlach, Kevin D. Haggerty, Sheryl N. Hamilton, Laura Huey, Simon J. Kiss, Mike Larsen, Shoshana Magnet, Patrick F. Parnaby, Justin Piché, C. Victoria Reed, Joseph Scanlon, Scott Thompson, Kevin Walby, and Dwayne Winseck

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