Globalization of Surveillance

Informationen zum Autor Armand Mattelart is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris VIII. Klappentext Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. The "war against terror" has only exacerbated this trend, creating a world that is closer than one might have imagined to that envisaged by George Orwell in 1984. How have we reached this situation? Why have democratic societies accepted that their rights and freedoms should be taken away, a little at a time, by increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance? From the anthropometry of the 19th Century to the Patriot Act, through an analysis of military theory and the Echelon Project, Armand Mattelart constructs a genealogy of this new power of control and examines its globalising dynamic. This book provides an essential wake-up call at a time when democratic societies are becoming less and less vigilant against the dangers of proliferating systems of surveillance. Zusammenfassung Video surveillance! public records! fingerprints! hidden microphones! RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I Disciplining / Managing 1 - Surveillance: delinquency as a political observatory 2 - Punishing: the apprehended multitude 3 - Managing Mass Society: the lessons of total war II Hegemonizing / Pacifying 4 - The Cold War and the religion of national security 5 - "Civic action" or the reappropriation of the national security doctrine 6 - Counterinsurgency, the crossroads of expeditionary forces 7 - The internationalisation of torture III Securitizing / Insecuritizing 8 - The new domestic order 9 - War without end: the techno-security paradigm 10 - The European Police Area 11 - The traceability of bodies and goods Epilogue ...

Product details

• Authors: a Mattelart, Armand Mattelart, Mattelart Armand
• Assisted by: James A. Cohen (Translation), Susan Gruenheck Taponier (Translation)
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2010
• EAN: 9780745645100
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-4510-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Geopolitics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Hospitality and service industries, Surveillance Services, surveillance studies; technology