Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) - Tapa blanda

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Monahan, Torin

 
9780813547657: Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0813547652 ISBN 13: 9780813547657
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse-all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual basis for many of these fears, they do not simply represent objective conditions. Feelings of insecurity are instilled by politicians and the media, and sustained by urban fortification, technological surveillance, and economic vulnerability.

Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. Torin Monahan explores the counterterrorism-themed show 24, Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance. Alleviating insecurity requires that we confront its mythic dimensions, the politics inherent in new configurations of security provision, and the structural obstacles to achieving equality in societies.

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Torin Monahan is an associate professor of human and organizational development and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. His writings include Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education (Rutgers University Press).

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"Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity" fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. It explores the counterterrorism-themed show 24, Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance. Alleviating insecurity requires that we confront its mythic dimensions, the politics inherent in new configurations of security provision, and the structural obstacles to achieving equality in societies.

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Editorial
Rutgers University Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813547652
ISBN 13 
9780813547657
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Número de páginas
228
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9780813547640: Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

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ISBN 10:  0813547644 ISBN 13:  9780813547640
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2010
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