Roy Coleman

Reclaiming the Streets

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In an age of mass camera surveillance, people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorized people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV within the broader social relations out of which it has grown and consolidated. The aim of this book is to analyze the use of CCTV within this broader social, political and ideological context, focusing on relations between surveillance, power and social order, using Liverpool as a case study. At the same time the book provides a study of social control in Liverpool city center, exploring the development of, and meaning attributed to, social control practices by those at the center of the implementation and management of these practices. As such the book is a study of the locally powerful, their organization through the local state, and their perceptions of order and disorder in the city center. Liverpools CCTV network is thus seen

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781843920779
• ISBN-10: 1843920778
• Artikelnr.: 23190326

Autorenporträt

Roy Coleman is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Studies at Liverpool University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 'The friendly eye in the sky' 2. The disappearing state:
social control, social order and the state 3. Rediscovering the state:
understanding camera surveillance as a social ordering practice 4. The
neoliberal city and social control 5. From the dockyards to the Disney
store: the historical trajectory of social control in Liverpool 6. State,
partnership and power: excavating neoliberal rule in the city 7. Reclaiming
the streets: the techniques and norms of contemporary social control 8.
Conclusion: visualising the neoliberal city