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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-
Greenberg, Joshua, 1973-
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2009.
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Variant Title:
Surveillance: Power, Problems, and Politics
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Foreword: Surveillance and political problems / Kevin D. Haggerty
  • Introduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg
  • 1. The 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. A 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.