RT Book
T1 Making surveillance states: transnational histories
A2 Heynen, Robert 1969-
A2 Van der Meulen, Emily 1977-
LA English
PP Toronto Buffalo London
PB University of Toronto Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1678609455
AB "Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taking a transnational approach, the book challenges us to rethink the presumed novelty of contemporary surveillance practices, while developing critical analyses of the ways in which state surveillance has profoundly shaped the emergence of contemporary societies. Contributors engage with a range of surveillance practices, including medical and disease surveillance, systems of documentation and identification, and policing and security. These approaches enable us to understand how surveillance has underpinned the emergence of modern states; sustained systems of state security; enabled practices of colonial rule; perpetuated racist and gendered forms of identification and classification; regulated and policed migration; shaped the eugenically inflected medicalization of disability and sexuality; and contained dissent. While surveillance is thus bound up with complex relations of power, it is also contested. Emerging from the book is a sense of how state actors understood and legitimized their own surveillance practices, as well as how these practices have been implemented in different times and places. At the same time, contributors explore the myriad ways in which these systems of surveillance have been resisted, challenged, and subverted."--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN 323.44/8
SN 9781487522483
SN 9781487503154
SN 1487522487
SN 1487503156
K1 Privacy, Right of : History
K1 Intelligence service : History
K1 Public health surveillance : History
K1 Social Control
K1 National Security
K1 Intelligence service
K1 Privacy, Right of
K1 Public health surveillance
K1 History
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Staat : Bürger : Überwachung : Polizei : Geheimdienst : Gesundheitswesen : Soziale Kontrolle : Geschichte 1790-2005