Technologies of inSecurity [ the surveillance of everyday life

Examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life. This book explores a

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aas, Katja Franko (Author), Gundhus, Helene Oppen (Author), Lomell, Heidi Mork (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon [England];New York : Routledge-Cavendish , 2009
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Mundane terror and the threat of everyday objects
  • 2. Identification practices: state formation, crime control, colonialism and war
  • 3. Spatial articulations of surveillance at the FIFA World Cup 2006TM in Germany
  • 4. Checkpoint security : gateways, airports and the architecture of security
  • 5. 24/7/365 : mobility, locatability and the satellite tracking of offender
  • 6. Empowered watchers or disempowered workers? The ambiguities of power within technologies of security?
  • 7. Hijacking surveillance? The new moral landscapes of amateur photographing
  • 8. The role of the Internet in the twenty-first century prison: insecure technologies in secure spaces
  • 9. Computer crime control as industry: virtual insecurity and the market of private policing
  • 10. Technologies of surveillance and the erosion of institutional trust
  • 11. Another side of the story: defence lawyers' view on DNA evidence
  • 12. Catastrophic moral horror : torture, terror and rights
  • Mundane terror and the threat of everyday objects / Daniel Neyland
  • Identification practices: state formation, crime control, colonialism and war / David Lyon
  • Spatial articulations of surveillance at the FIFA World Cup 2006TM in Germany / Francisco