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Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal
data and processing them in searchable databases drives
administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security,
governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both
globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data,
and localized in the daily minutiae of social life. This innovative
Handbook explores the empirical, theoretical and ethical issues
around surveillance and its use in daily life. With a collection of
over forty essays from the leading names in surveillance studies,
the Handbook takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to
critically question issues of: surveillance and population control
policing, intelligence and war production and consumption new media
security identification regulation and resistance. The Routledge
Handbook of Surveillance Studies is an international, accessible,
definitive and comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing
multi-disciplinary field of surveillance studies. The Handbook's
direct, authoritative style will appeal to a wide range of scholars
and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities.
Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses
the impact of mega-events - such as the Olympic Games and the World
Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance.
"Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The
overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There
are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go
wrong"; producing the perceived need for pre-emptive risk
assessments, and an expanding range of security measures, including
extensive forms and levels of surveillance. These measures are
delivered by a "security/industrial complex" consisting of powerful
transnational corporate, governmental and military actors, eager to
showcase the latest technologies and prove that they can deliver
"spectacular levels of security". Mega-events have thus become
occasions for experiments in monitoring people and places. And, as
such, they have become important moments in the development and
dispersal of surveillance, as the infrastructure established for
mega-events are often marketed as security solutions for the more
routine monitoring of people and place. Mega-events, then, now
serve as focal points for the proliferation of security and
surveillance. They are microcosms of larger trends and processes,
through which - as the contributors to this volume demonstrate - we
can observe the complex ways that security and surveillance are now
implicated in unique confluences of technology, institutional
motivations, and public-private security arrangements. As the
exceptional conditions of the mega-event become the norm, Security
Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events therefore provides
the glimpse of a possible future that is more intensively and
extensively monitored.
Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses
the impact of mega-events -- such as the Olympic Games and the
World Cup -- on wider practices of security and surveillance.
"Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The
overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There
are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go
wrong"; producing the perceived need for pre-emptive risk
assessments, and an expanding range of security measures, including
extensive forms and levels of surveillance. These measures are
delivered by a "security/industrial complex" consisting of powerful
transnational corporate, governmental and military actors, eager to
showcase the latest technologies and prove that they can deliver
"spectacular levels of security." Mega-events have thus become
occasions for experiments in monitoring people and places. And, as
such, they have become important moments in the development and
dispersal of surveillance, as the infrastructure established for
mega-events are often marketed as security solutions for the more
routine monitoring of people and place. Mega-events, then, now
serve as focal points for the proliferation of security and
surveillance. They are microcosms of larger trends and processes,
through which -- as the contributors to this volume demonstrate --
we can observe the complex ways that security and surveillance are
now implicated in unique confluences of technology, institutional
motivations, and public-private security arrangements. As the
exceptional conditions of the mega-event become the norm, Security
Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events therefore provides
the glimpse of a possible future that is more intensively and
extensively monitored.
Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal
data and processing them in searchable databases drives
administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security,
governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both
globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data,
and localized in the daily minutiae of social life. This innovative
Handbook explores the empirical, theoretical and ethical issues
around surveillance and its use in daily life. With a collection of
over forty essays from the leading names in surveillance studies,
the Handbook takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to
critically question issues of: surveillance and population control
policing, intelligence and war production and consumption new media
security identification regulation and resistance. The Routledge
Handbook of Surveillance Studies is an international, accessible,
definitive and comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing
multi-disciplinary field of surveillance studies. The Handbook's
direct, authoritative style will appeal to a wide range of scholars
and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has
been put forward as the essential tool for the aEURO"war on
terror,aEURO(t) with new technologies and policies offering police
and military operatives enhanced opportunities for monitoring
suspect populations. The last few years have also seen the
publicaEURO(t)s consumer tastes become increasingly codified, with
aEURO"data minesaEURO(t) of demographic information such as postal
codes and purchasing records. Additionally, surveillance has become
a form of entertainment, with aEURO"realityaEURO(t) shows becoming
the dominant genre on network and cable television.In The New
Politics of Surveillance and Visibility, editors Kevin D. Haggerty
and Richard V. Ericson bring together leading experts to analyse
how society is organized through surveillance systems,
technologies, and practices. They demonstrate how the new political
uses of surveillance make visible that which was previously
unknown, blur the boundaries between public and private, rewrite
the norms of privacy, create new forms of inclusion and exclusion,
and alter processes of democratic accountability. This collection
challenges conventional wisdom and advances new theoretical
approaches through a series of studies of surveillance in policing,
the military, commercial enterprises, mass media, and health
sciences.
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