1st Edition
States of Surveillance Ethnographies of New Technologies in Policing and Justice
States of surveillance: Ethnographic perspectives on technology in policing
Maya Avis, Daniel Marciniak, and Maria Sapignoli
Part 1. Navigating surveillance: Contending with promises of transformations
1. Shaping surveillance futures: Palestinian responses to Israeli surveillance technologies
Maya Avis
2. Encountering ethnographic gestures: Reflections on the banality of cybersecurity and STS ecologies of practice
Andrea Miller
3. “The server is always down!”: Digitalised complaints systems to monitor public service (mis)conduct in Kenya
Tessa Diphoorn
4. Surveillance with a human face: Imaginaries, debates, and resistance to facial recognition implementation among CCTV workers in Argentina
Martín Javier Urtasun
Part 2. Shaping epistemology: Problematising knowledge production in law enforcement
5. Algorithmic chains of translation: Predictive policing and the need for team-based ethnography
Simon Egbert and Maximilian Heimstädt
6. Mapping and the construction of criminal spaces in Delhi
Shivangi Narayan
7. Infrastructure shortcuts: The private cloud infrastructure of data-driven policing and its political consequences
Daniel Marciniak
8. Machine learning and artificial intelligence in counterterrorism: The “realities” of security practitioners and technologists
Mark Maguire and David A. Westbrook
Biography
Maya Avis is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Daniel Marciniak is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull.
Maria Sapignoli is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Milan.
