The Surveillance-Industrial Complex (eBook, PDF)

A Political Economy of Surveillance
Redaktion: Ball, Kirstie; Snider, Laureen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role that business and governments play in shaping and promoting the growth of surveillance in societies today. A series of articles by internationally known surveillance scholars set out the implications, both positive and negative, of the massive surveillance complexes that dominate private and public spaces and all the institutions of modern life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136206986
• Artikelnr.: 39189901

Autorenporträt

Kirstie Ball is Reader in Surveillance and Organization at the Open University Business School, UK. Laureen Snider is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: Towards a Political
Economy of Surveillance? Part I: International Networks and Global Circuits
of Surveillance 1. The New Military Urbanism 2. Promoting Global
Identification: Corporations, IGOs and ID Card Systems 3. Pandemic
Governance: Using Event-Based Surveillance to Manage Emerging Infectious
Diseases 4. The SAIC-SIEMENS 'Super-Panopticon' in the Athens 2004 Olympics
as a Case of 'McVeillance': The Surveillance Industrial Complex's
Unscrupulous Global Business 5. Insecurity as an Engineering Problem: The
Technosecurity Network Part II: Surveillance Capacity, Industrial
Infrastructures and Resource Distribution 6. Critical Examination of the
Role of Private Actors in the Fight Against Money Laundering - the Case of
the UK Retail Banking Industry 7. Collaborative Surveillance: Configuring
Contemporary Marketing Practice 8. The 'Great Unwatched' and the 'Lightly
Touched': Surveillance and Stock Market Fraud Part III: Ground Level
Circulations 9. The Imagined City: Power, Mystification and Synoptic
Surveillance 10. From Accountability Policy to Surveillance Practices in
Higher Education 11. Surveillance and Subjectivity: Everyday Experiences of
Surveillance Practices 12. CCTV in Barcelona: The Political Economy of
Surveillance in the (Wannabe) Global City