Description
Book SynopsisFocuses 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
