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Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity

Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity

by Torin Monahan
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/04/2010

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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.
ISBN:
9780813547657
9780813547657
Category:
Crime & criminology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
226
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x15mm
Weight:
0.34kg

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