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Overseers of the Poor (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Overseers of the Poor (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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In "Overseers of the Poor," John Gilliom confronts the everyday
politics of surveillance by exploring the worlds and words of those
who know it best-the watched. Arguing that the current public
conversation about surveillance and privacy rights is rife with
political and conceptual failings, Gilliom goes beyond the critics
and analysts to add fresh voices, insights, and perspectives.
This powerful book lets us in on the conversations of low-income
mothers from Appalachian Ohio as they talk about the welfare
bureaucracy and its remarkably advanced surveillance system. In
their struggle to care for their families, these women are
monitored and assessed through a vast network of supercomputers,
caseworkers, fraud control agents, and even grocers and neighbors.
In-depth interviews show that these women focus less on the right
to privacy than on a critique of surveillance that lays bare the
personal and political conflicts with which they live. And, while
they have little interest in conventional forms of politics, we see
widespread patterns of everyday resistance as they subvert the
surveillance regime when they feel it prevents them from being good
parents. Ultimately, "Overseers of the Poor" demonstrates the need
to reconceive not just our understanding of the
surveillance-privacy debate but also the broader realms of
language, participation, and the politics of rights.
We all know that our lives are being watched more than ever before.
As we struggle to understand and confront this new order, Gilliom
argues, we need to spend less time talking about privacy rights,
legislatures, and courts of law and more time talking about power,
domination, and the ongoing struggles of everyday people.
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