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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451869403321

Titolo

Routledge handbook of surveillance studies / / edited by Kirstie Ball, Kevin D. Haggerty and David Lyon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-66046-5

9786613637390

0-203-81494-0

1-136-71107-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Collana

Routledge International Handbooks

Altri autori (Persone)

BallKirstie

HaggertyKevin D

LyonDavid <1948->

Disciplina

363.2/32

Soggetti

Privacy, Right of

Electronic surveillance - Social aspects

Information technology - Social aspects

Social control

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface "Your Papers please": personal and professionalencounters with surveillance; Introducing surveillance studies; Part I: Understanding surveillance; Introduction: Understanding surveillance; Section 1.1. Theory I: After Foucault; a. Panopticon-discipline-control; b. Simulation and post-panopticism; c. Surveillance as biopower; Section 1.2.Theory II: Difference, politics, privacy; a. "You shouldn't wear that body": The problematic of surveillance and gender

b. The information stateAn historical perspective on surveillancec. "Needs" for surveillance and themovement to protect privacy; d. Race and surveillance; Section 1.3.Cultures of surveillance; a. Performing surveillance; b. Ubiquitous surveillance; c. Surveillance in literature, filmand television; d. Surveillance work(ers); Part II: Surveillance as



sorting; Introduction: Surveillance as sorting; Section 2.1. Surveillance techniques; a. Statistical surveillance: Remote sensing in the digital age; b. Advertising's newsurveillance ecosystem; c. New technologies, securityand surveillance

Section 2.2.Social divisions of surveillancea. Colonialism and surveillance; b. Identity, surveillance and modernitySorting out who's who; c. The surveillance-industrial complex; d. The body as data in the ageof information; Part III: Surveillance contexts; Introduction: Contexts of surveillance; Section 3.1. Population control; a. Borders, identification and surveillance: New regimes of border control; b. Urban spaces of surveillance; c. Seeing population Census and surveillance by numbers; d. Surveillance and non-humans; e. The rise of the surveillance school; Section 3.2.Crime and policing

a. Surveillance, crime and the policeb. Crime, surveillance and media; c. The success of failureAccounting for the global growth of CCTV; d. Surveillance and urban violence inLatin America; Section 3.3. Security, intelligence, war; a. Military surveillance; b. Security, surveillance and democracy; c. Surveillance and terrorism; d. The globalization ofhomeland security; Section 3.4. Production, consumption, administration; a. Organization, employees and surveillance; b. Public administration as surveillance

c. Consumer surveillanceContext, perspectives and concerns inthe personal information economySection 3.5.Digital spaces of surveillance; a. Globalization and surveillance; b. Surveillance and participationon Web 2.0; c. Hide and seekSurveillance of young people on the internet; Part IV: Limiting surveillance; Introduction: Limiting surveillance; Section 4.1. Ethics, law and policy; a. A surveillance of care: Evaluating surveillance ethically; b. Regulating surveillance: The importance of principles; c. Privacy, identity and anonymity; Section 4.2.Regulation and resistance

a. Regulating surveillance technologies: Institutional arrangements

Sommario/riassunto

Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data, and localized in the daily minutiae of social life. This innovative Handbook explores the empirical, theoretical and ethical issues around surveillance and its use in daily life. With a collection of over forty essays from the leading names in surveillanc