Surveillance and Governance

by Deflem, Mathieu

• ISBN13: 9780762314164
• ISBN10: 0762314168
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781849505581
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-13
• Publisher: Jai
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Summary

This volume presents recent insights in the sociological study of surveillance and governance in the context of criminal justice and other control strategies. The chapters provide a varied set of theoretical perspectives and substantive research domains on the qualities and quantities of some of the most recent transformations of social control as well as their historical precursors in diverse social settings. The contributors to this volume testify to the increasing relevance of surveillance and governance across the globe as well as the cross-national study thereof. Among the central issues discussed is the relationship between state and non-state mechanisms of surveillance. Moreover, many of the new technologies that a decade ago led to analytical reflections of the highest order today have become banal in their everyday application and routine diffusion. What can sociologists intelligently say about these developments in both empirical and theoretical respects? Creatively exploring many facets of the broader constellation of contemporary surveillance and governance strategies with respect to both crime control and related developments, the contributors of this volume offer provocative and thoughtful reflections that will stimulate our theoretical thinking about relevant issues. * A contemporary study of surveillance and governance * Contributions from an international group of leading scholars

Table of Contents

Introduction: An Eye On Surveillance And Governance

Boundaries And Spaces Community, Surveillance And Border Control

The Case Of The Minuteman Project

The Politics Of Sight/Site

Locating Cameras In Vancouvers Public Spaces

The Conquest Of Space

New York Citys New Frontier Of Social Control

The Check And The Guardianship

A Comparison Of Surveillance At An Airport And A Housing-Estate Area In The Paris Outskirts Lex Vigilatoria

Global Control Without A State?

Technologies And Strategies

Technologies Of The Body, Technologies Of The Self

House Arrest As Neo-Liberal Governance Academia, Surveillance, And The FBI

A Short History What If Shes From The FBI?

The Effects Of Covert Forms Of Social Control On Social Movements Plural Policing And Cctv Surveillance

Objectives And Counter-Objectives

The New Lateral Surveillance And A Culture Of Suspicion Citizenship, Hyper-Surveillance, And Double-Consciousness

Racial Profiling As Panoptic Governance Hacking The Panopticon

Distributed Online Surveillance And Resistance Surveillance And Sovereignty

Beyond Crime Control Surveillance And Educational Testing

No Child Left Behind And The Remaking Of American Schools Governing Beyond Command And Control

A Responsive And Nodal Approach To Child Protection From Thought Control To Traffic Control

Cctv Politics Of Expansion And Resistance In Post-Olympics Greece

Index

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