Surveillance : power, problems, and politics / edited by Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg. - Vancouver : UBC Press, 2009. - 273 p. : ill.

Foreword: Surveillance and political problems / Kevin D. Haggerty -- Introduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg -- 1. The politics of surveillance : power, paradigms, and the field of visibility / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg -- Pt. 1. Stigma, morality, and social control -- 2. Kid-visible : childhood obesity, body surveillance, and the techniques of care / Charlene D. Elliott -- 3. Police surveillance of male-with-male public sex in Ontario, 1983-94 / Kevin Walby -- 4. A kind of prohibition : targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario's Interdiction List, 1953-75 / Scott Thompson -- Pt. 2. Environmental design, consumerism, and privacy -- 5. Natural surveillance, crime prevention, and the effects of being seen / Patrick F. Parnaby and C. Victoria Reed -- 6. Administering the dead : mass death and the problem of privacy / Joseph Scanlon -- 7. Identity theft and the construction of creditable subjects / Sheryl N. Hamilton -- Pt. 3. Genetics, security, and biometrics -- 8. From bodily integrity to genetic surveillance : the Impacts of DNA identification in criminal justice / Neil Gerlach -- 9. Communication and the sorrows of empire : surveillance and information operations "blowback" in the global war on terrorism / Dwayne Winseck -- 10. Bio-benefits : technologies of criminalization, biometrics, and the welfare system / Shoshana Magnet -- Pt. 4. Participatory surveillance and resistance -- 11. Public vigilance campaigns and participatory surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piche -- 12. Cell phones and surveillance : mobile technology, states, and social movements / Simon J. Kiss -- 13. Subverting surveillance systems : access to information mechanisms as tools of counter-surveillance / Laura Huey. HKBU library

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Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.
Electronic surveillance--Political aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Social control.
Privacy, Right of.
Surveillance électronique--Aspect social.
Surveillance électronique--Aspect politique.
Technologie de l'information--Aspect social.
Contrôle social.
Droit à la vie privée.
Elektronische Überwachung
Soziale Kontrolle
Privatsphäre

HM846 / S961 2009