Torin Monahan

Surveillance and Security (eBook, ePUB)

Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a volume of original contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines. The aim of the book is to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use. It is truly an interdisciplinary project that will find purchase in courses on security studies and the sociology of culture and the sociology of science. Courses on security studies and its impact on culture can be found in a variety of academic departments including STS, criminology, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, political science and justice studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135447359
• Artikelnr.: 39960001

Autorenporträt

Torin Monahan is assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of the Routledge book Globalization, TechnologyChange, And Public Education (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Questioning Surveillance and Security
I: Neoliberal States
2: The State Goes Home
3: Soft Surveillance
4: Everyday Insecurities
5: Indoor Positioning and Digital Management
6: Technologies of Citizenship
7: The Surveillance Curriculum
8: "Don't Be Low Hanging Fruit"
9: Cop Watching in the Downtown Eastside
10: Defensive Surveillance
II: Mobilities and Insecurities
11: Borderline Identities
12: "Divided We Move"
13: Why Where You Are Matters
14: Using Intelligent Transport Systems to Track Buses and Passengers
15: The Bundling of Geospatial Information with Everyday Experience
16: Techniques of Preparedness
17: Technology Studies for Terrorists