The state goes home: local hyper-vigilance of children and the global retreat from social reproduction

The growing child protection industry has built its business foundation on an all-pervasive culture of fear, whilst hiding what its mission really is—the remaking of the home as a fortress through the sale of surveillance technologies to protect it from intrusion. These are totally inappropriate tec...

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Main Author: Katz, Cindi 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2001
In: Social justice
Year: 2001, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 47-56
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Social Justice
Institutional care of children
Child rearing > United States
Electronic Surveillance
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Summary:The growing child protection industry has built its business foundation on an all-pervasive culture of fear, whilst hiding what its mission really is—the remaking of the home as a fortress through the sale of surveillance technologies to protect it from intrusion. These are totally inappropriate technocratic solutions for wide-ranging social problems and constitute another reaction to the poisonous and elusive rhetoric that has become one of the key stocks in trade of the neoliberal state.
ISSN:2327-641X