Making Surveillance States

Transnational Histories

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-18
Mått:147 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487522483

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Robert Heynen is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York UniversityEmily van der Meulen is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsForeword by David LyonAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Unpacking State Surveillance: Histories, Theories, and Global ContextsEmily van der Meulen, Ryerson University and Robert Heynen, York University Section One: Medical, Disease, and Health Surveillance 2. "Coolie" Control: State Surveillance and the Labour of Disinfection across the Late Victorian British EmpireJacob Steere-Williams, College of Charleston3. Surveillance, Medicine, and the Misterios de la Naturaleza: Campaigns to "Cure" Deafness in Late-Nineteenth Century Mexico City Holly Caldwell, Chestnut Hill College 4. "Masquerading as a Woman": The South African Disguises Acts and the Ghosts of Apartheid Surveillance, 1906-2004B Camminga, University of Wits Section Two: Identification, Regulation, and Colonial Rule 5. The Penal Surveillant Assemblage: Attainder and Tickets of Leave in Nineteenth-Century Colonial AustraliaIan Warren, Deakin University and Darren Palmer, Deakin University6. Controlling Transnational Asian Mobilities: A Comparison of Documentary Systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940sUma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape and Margaret Allen, University of Adelaide 7. Bodies as Risky Resources: Japan’s Colonial Identification Systems in Northeastern ChinaMidori Ogasawara, Queen’s University 8. A State of Exception: Frameworks and Institutions of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians, 1948-1967Ahmad H Sa’di, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevSection Three: State Security, Policing, and Dissent 9. Dossierveillance in Communist Romania: Collaboration with the Securitate, 1945-1989Cristina Plamadeala, Concordia University10. The FBI and the American Friends Service Committee: Surveilling United States Religious Expression in the Cold War EraKathryn Montalbano, Neumann University 11. "When under Surveillance, Always Put on a Good Show": Representations of Surveillance in the United States Underground Press, 1968-1972Elisabetta Ferrari, University of Pennsylvania and John Remensperger, University of Pennsylvania 12. "That’s Not a Conversation That Belongs to the Museum": The (In)visibility of Surveillance History at Police Museums in Ontario, Canada Matthew Ferguson, University of Ottawa, Justin Piché, University of Ottawa, and Kevin Walby, University of Winnipeg AfterwordSimone Browne, University of Texas at AustinList of Contributors Index