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Technologies of InSecurity - The Surveillance of Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Technologies of InSecurity - The Surveillance of Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Technologies of InSecurity examines how general social and
political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and
globalization are translated into concrete practices of
securitisation of everyday life. Who are we afraid of in a
globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security
constructed and addressed by various local actors and embodied in a
variety of surveillance systems? Examining how various forms of
contemporary insecurity are translated into, and reduced to, issues
of surveillance and social control, this book explores a variety of
practical and cultural aspects of technological control, as well as
the discourses about safety and security surrounding them.
(In)security is a politically and socially constructed phenomenon,
with a variety of meanings and modalities. And, exploring the
inherent duality and dialectics between our striving for security
and the simultaneous production of insecurity, Technologies of
Insecurity considers how mundane objects and activities are
becoming bearers of risks which need to be neutralised. As ordinary
arenas - such as the workplace, the city centre, the football
stadium, the airport, and the internet - are imbued with various
notions of risk and danger and subject to changing public attitudes
and sensibilities, the critical deconstruction of the nexus between
everyday surveillance and (in)security pursued here provides
important new insights about how broader political issues are
translated into concrete and local practices of social control and
exclusion.
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