Surveillance and democracy / / edited by Kevin D. Haggerty and Minas Samatas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459559003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-97451-2; 1-282-73331-1; 9786612733314; 0-203-85215-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Collana: A Glasshouse book
• Altri autori (Persone): HaggertyKevin D; SamatasMinas
• Disciplina: 323.44/82
• Soggetti: Democracy; Electronic surveillance - Social aspects; Social control; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A GlassHouse book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Surveillance and democracy: an unsettled relationship; Part I: Theorizing surveillance and democracy; Chapter 1: Surveillance and transparency as sociotechnical systems of accountability; Chapter 2: Identification, surveillance and democracy; Chapter 3: Democracy and its visibilities; Chapter 4: Periopticon: control beyond freedom and coercion - and two possible advancements in the social sciences; Part II: Surveillance policies and practices of democratic governance; Chapter 5: Surveillance as governance: Social inequality and the pursuit of democratic surveillanceChapter 6: Democracy, surveillance and "knowing what's good for you": The private sector origins of profiling and the birth of "Citizen Relationship Management"; Chapter 7: The impact of communications data retention on fundamental rights and democracy - the case of the EU Data Retention Directive; Chapter 8: "Full Spectrum Dominance" as European Union Security Policy: On the ; trail of the "NeoConOpticon"; Part III: Case studies in the dynamics of surveillance and democracy; Chapter 9: A trans-systemic surveillance: The legacy of communist surveillance in the digital ageChapter 10: Balancing public safety and security demands with civil liberties in a new constitutional democracy: The case of post-1994 South Africa and the growth of residential security and surveilla; Chapter 11: The Greek Olympic phone tapping scandal: A defenceless state and a weak democracy; Chapter 12: Surveillance and democracy in the digital enclosure; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? As surveillance measures are increasingly justified in terms of national security, is there the prospect that a shadow ""security state"" will emerge? How might new surveillance measures alter the conceptions of citizens and citizenship which are at the