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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

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/15/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472055470, 978-0472055470
      ISBN10: 047205547X

      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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