Surveillance [[electronic resource] ] : power, problems, and politics / / edited by Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459509503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-74054-7; 9786612740541; 0-7748-1613-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HierSean P <1971-> (Sean Patrick); GreenbergJoshua <1973->
• Disciplina: 303.3/3
• Soggetti: Electronic surveillance - Social aspects; Electronic surveillance - Political aspects; Information technology - Social aspects; Social control; Privacy, Right of; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword: Surveillance and Political Problems / Kevin D. Haggerty -- Introduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg -- 1. Politics of Surveillance: Power, Paradigms, and the Field of Visibility / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg -- Pt. 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. Kind of Prohibition: Targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario's Interdiction List, 1953-75 / Scott Thompson -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 4. Participatory Surveillance and Resistance -- 11. Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piche -- 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.