1st Edition
Elusive Subjects Immigrant Recognition and Legitimation in Modern Surveillance States
By Mary McThomas
Copyright 2022
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book, Mary McThomas examines how individuals can claim their own subjecthood while still evading the identity-forming powers of state surveillance.
Building on post-colonial theories, Queer theories, and surveillance studies, McThomas analyzes how the creation of categories and identities can serve as a form of control or, conversely, can be used as a form of resistance. In doing so,... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Surveillance, State Power and Policing the "Other"
3. Colonial Objects and Systems of Control
4. Coming Out of the Shadows: Public Anxiety and the Confessional
5. The Battle for Sanctuary
6. From Surveilled Object to Rights-bearing Subject
Biography
Mary McThomas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She studies theories of citizenship and migration, feminist theory, and the right to privacy.
