
The Globalization of Surveillance
Armand Mattelart(Author)
Polity Press
Will be published approx. on 27. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-7456-4511-7 (ISBN)
Description
Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. The "war against terror" has only exacerbated this trend, creating a world that is closer than one might have imagined to that envisaged by George Orwell in 1984.
How have we reached this situation? Why have democratic societies accepted that their rights and freedoms should be taken away, a little at a time, by increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance?
From the anthropometry of the 19th Century to the Patriot Act, through an analysis of military theory and the Echelon Project, Armand Mattelart constructs a genealogy of this new power of control and examines its globalising dynamic.
This book provides an essential wake-up call at a time when democratic societies are becoming less and less vigilant against the dangers of proliferating systems of surveillance.
Reviews / Votes
"A tightly packed and critical history of the global rise of security, surveillance and suspicion." David Lyon, Queens University "This book cuts through the clutter of post-9/11 political rhetoric to reveal the contours of a global capitalist surveillance economy in which the logics of policing and marketing converge. Mattelart counters the urgent injunction to ignore history in the face of the contemporary threat (because 'everything has changed') by exploring the long marriage between capitalism and surveillance. The book shows us how the mobilization of the promise of security has been used to undermine freedom, and suggests what it might mean to think the two together. This is an indispensable work that explores the sometimes invisible atmosphere in which we move: that of ubiquitous surveillance, tracking, and targeting - and the interests which these serve." Mark Andrejevic, University of IowaMore details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-4511-7 (9780745645117)
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Armand Mattelart
The Globalization of Surveillance
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Person
Armand Mattelart is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris VIII.
Content
Introduction
I Disciplining / Managing
1 - Surveillance: delinquency as a political observatory
2 - Punishing: the apprehended multitude
3 - Managing Mass Society: the lessons of total war
II Hegemonizing / Pacifying
4 - The Cold War and the religion of national security
5 - "Civic action" or the reappropriation of the national security doctrine
6 - Counterinsurgency, the crossroads of expeditionary forces
7 - The internationalisation of torture
III Securitizing / Insecuritizing
8 - The new domestic order
9 - War without end: the techno-security paradigm
10 - The European Police Area
11 - The traceability of bodies and goods
Epilogue