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Technologies of InSecurity: The Surveillance of Everyday Life book cover

1st Edition

Technologies of InSecurity The Surveillance of Everyday Life

Edited By Katja Franko Aas, Helene Gundhus, Heidi Mork Lomell Copyright 2009
294 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

296 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

296 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish
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Technologies of InSecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life. Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security constructed and addressed by various local actors and embodied in a variety of surveillance systems?... Read more
Introduction: Technologies of (in)security, K .F. Aas, H. O. Gundhus, H. M. Lomell  Part 1: (In)security and terror  1. Mundane Terror and the Threat of Everyday Objects, Daniel Neyland  2. Identification Practices: state formation, crime control, colonialism and war, David Lyon  Part 2: (In)secure spaces  3. Spatial Articulations of Surveillance at the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, Francisco Klauser  4. Checkpoint Security: Gateways, airports, and the architecture of security, Richard Jones  Part 3: (In)secure visibilities  5. 24/7/365: Mobility, locability and the satellite tracking of offenders, Mike Nellis  6. Empowered Watchers or Disempowered Workers? The ambiguities of power within technologies of security, Gavin John Douglas Smith  7. Hijacking Surveillance? The new moral landscapes of amateur photographing, Hille Koskela  Part 4: (In)secure virtualities  8. The Role of the Internet in the Twenty First Century Prison: Insecure technologies in secure places, Yvonne Jewkes  9. Computer Crime Control as Industry: Virtual insecurity and the market for private policing, Majid Yar  Part 5: (In)Secure rights  10. Technologies of Surveillance and the erosion of institutional trust, Benjamin Goold  11. Another Side of the Story: Defence lawyers' views on DNA evidence, Johanne Yttrl Dahl  12. 'Catastrophic Moral Horror': Torture, terror and rights, Vidar Halvorsen  Epilogue: The Inescapable Insecurity of security technologies?, Lucia Zedner

Biography

Katja Franko Aas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo.

Helene Oppen Gundhus is Assistant Professor at the Norwegian Police University College.

Heidi Mork Lomell is Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo.

"Impressively, Technologies of InSecurity: the surveillance of everyday life confronts both the most pressing theoretical and conceptual issues raised by European criminologists and sociologists in the surveillance studies arena, and also offers a detailed account of cutting-edge empirical cases characterizing the contemporary horizons of surveillance practice and social control...Technologies of (In)security will no doubt find its place as an influential collection in the porous and shifting field of Surveillance Studies." - Adam Molnar, Surveillance & Society, Vol 6, No 3 (2009)

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