1st Edition
The Surveillance-Industrial Complex A Political Economy of Surveillance
Introduction: The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: Towards a Political Economy of Surveillance? Part I: International Networks and Global Circuits of Surveillance 1. The New Military Urbanism 2. Promoting Global Identification: Corporations, IGOs and ID Card Systems 3. Pandemic Governance: Using Event-Based Surveillance to Manage Emerging Infectious Diseases 4. The SAIC-SIEMENS ‘Super-Panopticon’ in the Athens 2004 Olympics as a Case of ‘McVeillance’: The Surveillance Industrial Complex’s Unscrupulous Global Business 5. Insecurity as an Engineering Problem: The Technosecurity Network Part II: Surveillance Capacity, Industrial Infrastructures and Resource Distribution 6. Critical Examination of the Role of Private Actors in the Fight Against Money Laundering – the Case of the UK Retail Banking Industry 7. Collaborative Surveillance: Configuring Contemporary Marketing Practice 8. The ‘Great Unwatched’ and the ‘Lightly Touched’: Surveillance and Stock Market Fraud Part III: Ground Level Circulations 9. The Imagined City: Power, Mystification and Synoptic Surveillance 10. From Accountability Policy to Surveillance Practices in Higher Education 11. Surveillance and Subjectivity: Everyday Experiences of Surveillance Practices 12. CCTV in Barcelona: The Political Economy of Surveillance in the (Wannabe) Global City
Biography
Kirstie Ball is Reader in Surveillance and Organization at the Open University Business School, UK.
Laureen Snider is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada.
