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Book Synopsis
Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.

Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One
  • Policing the Post-Liberal City: Paradoxes and Contradictions
  • Chapter Two
  • Johannesburg in the Geographic Imagination: Agoraphobia and other Obsessions
  • Chapter Three
  • Vulnerable Bodies: Self-Protection in a Risky World
  • Chapter Four
  • The Surveillant Assemblage: The Hyper-panoptic Imagination
  • Chapter Five
  • The CCTV ‘Revolution’
  • [With Nicky Falkof]
  • Chapter Six
  • Colliding Worlds in Micrososm
  • Chapter Seven
  • Security by Design: Spatial Management in the Hypermodern City
  • Epilogue Introduction
  • Epilogue 1
  • Jane Alexander Security Exhibition
  • Epilogue 2
  • Mosquito Lightning
  • [Carla Busuttil and Gary Charles]
  • Bibliography

The Infrastructures of Security

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    Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
    Publication Date: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780472075478, 978-0472075478
    ISBN10: 0472075470

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.

    Table of Contents
    • Table of Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • List of Illustrations
    • Acknowledgments
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Chapter One
    • Policing the Post-Liberal City: Paradoxes and Contradictions
    • Chapter Two
    • Johannesburg in the Geographic Imagination: Agoraphobia and other Obsessions
    • Chapter Three
    • Vulnerable Bodies: Self-Protection in a Risky World
    • Chapter Four
    • The Surveillant Assemblage: The Hyper-panoptic Imagination
    • Chapter Five
    • The CCTV ‘Revolution’
    • [With Nicky Falkof]
    • Chapter Six
    • Colliding Worlds in Micrososm
    • Chapter Seven
    • Security by Design: Spatial Management in the Hypermodern City
    • Epilogue Introduction
    • Epilogue 1
    • Jane Alexander Security Exhibition
    • Epilogue 2
    • Mosquito Lightning
    • [Carla Busuttil and Gary Charles]
    • Bibliography

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