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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136643903321

Autore

Guzik Keith

Titolo

Making Things Stick : Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime / / Keith Guzik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2016

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-520-95970-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

363.2

Soggetti

Security systems

Crime prevention

Electronic surveillance

Social control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things—cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies—that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.