Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-
• Greenberg, Joshua, 1973-

Description

xviii, 273 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Electronic surveillance > Social aspects
• Electronic surveillance > Political aspects
• Information technology > Social aspects
• Social control
• Privacy, Right of
• Surveillance électronique > Aspect social
• Surveillance électronique > Aspect politique
• Technologie de l'information > Aspect social
• Contrôle social
• Droit à la vie privée

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780774816113 (bound)
• 0774816112 (bound)

LCCN

40016736982

OCLC

• ocn298591558
• 298591558
• SCSB-5472417

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries