256 Pages
by
Willan
288 Pages
by
Willan
256 Pages
by
Willan
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In an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV within the broader social relations out of which it has grown and consolidated. The aim of this book is to analyse the use of CCTV within this... Read more
1. Introduction: 'The friendly eye in the sky' 2. The disappearing state: social control, social order and the state 3. Rediscovering the state: understanding camera surveillance as a social ordering practice 4. The neoliberal city and social control 5. From the dockyards to the Disney store: the historical trajectory of social control in Liverpool 6. State, partnership and power: excavating neoliberal rule in the city 7. Reclaiming the streets: the techniques and norms of contemporary social control 8. Conclusion: visualising the neoliberal city
Biography
Roy Coleman is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Studies at Liverpool University.
