Summary
This book explores how surveillance systems can, under the guise of managing risk or reducing harm, cause or exacerbate a range of problems, including poverty, over-policing, suspicion, and exclusion. The contributors explore the relationship between surveillance and social and political problems in a number of cultural locations and institutional arenas: policing, consumerism, welfare administration, disaster management, popular culture, moral regulation, news media, social movements, and anti-terrorism campaigns.
Contents
1. The politics of surveillance: power, paradigms, and the field of visibility / Sean P. Hier & Josh Greenberg. -- 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. -- 5. Natural surveillance, crime prevention, and the effects of being seen / Patrick F. Parnaby & 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. -- 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. -- 11. Public vigilance campaigns and participatory surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen & Justin Piché. -- 12. Cell phones and surveillance systems: mobile technology, states, and social movements / Simon J. Kiss. -- 13. Subverting surveillance systems: access to information mechanisms as tools of counter-surveillance / Laura Huey.