Surveillance in the time of insecurity / Torin Monahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monahan, Torin.

Series:

Critical issues in crime and society.

Critical issues in crime and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--United States.

National security.

Internal security--United States.

Internal security.

Electronic surveillance--United States.

Electronic surveillance.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse-all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual basis for many of these fears, they do not simply represent objective conditions. Feelings of insecurity are instilled by politicians and the media, and sustained by urban fortification, technological surveillance, and economic vulnerability. Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. Torin Monahan explores the counterterrorism-themed show 24, Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance. Alleviating insecurity requires that we confront its mythic dimensions, the politics inherent in new configurations of security provision, and the structural obstacles to achieving equality in societies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Constructing Insecurity

Part One: Security Cultures

1. Securing the Homeland

2. Twenty-Four-Hour Exceptions

3. Situational Awareness of the Security Industry

4. Vulnerable Identities

5. Leaving Others Behind

Part Two: Surveillance Infrastructures

6. Residential Fortification

7. Controlling Mobilities

8. Masculine Technologies

9. Countersurveillance

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8135-4943-4

OCLC:

659584818