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Making Surveillance States - Transnational Histories (Paperback)
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Making Surveillance States - Transnational Histories (Paperback)
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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.
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