Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8135-4765-7
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Monahan, Torin

Über Autor(innen)

TORIN MONAHAN is an associate professor of human and organizational development at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is the editor and author of several books, including Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. RODOLFO D. TORRES is a professor of planning, policy, and design, Chicano/Latino studies, and political science at the University of California, Irvine. He is coeditor of several books and the coauthor of Latino Metropolis (forthcoming, Rutgers University Press).