Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.
Trade ReviewThis particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases.
-- Benjamin J. Muller, Kings University College * Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (3) *
Table of ContentsForeword / 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part 4: Participatory Surveillance and Resistance
11 Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piché
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
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