Making surveillance states : transnational histories / edited by Robert Heynen and Emily van der Meulen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heynen, Robert, editor.

Van der Meulen, Emily, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of--History.

Privacy, Right of.

Intelligence service--History.

Intelligence service.

Public health surveillance--History.

Public health surveillance.

Social control.

National security.

Social Control, Formal.

Medical Subjects:

Social Control, Formal.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 345 pages : facsimilies ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taking a transnational approach, the book challenges us to rethink the presumed novelty of contemporary surveillance practices, while developing critical analyses of the ways in which state surveillance has profoundly shaped the emergence of contemporary societies. Contributors engage with a range of surveillance practices, including medical and disease surveillance, systems of documentation and identification, and policing and security. These approaches enable us to understand how surveillance has underpinned the emergence of modern states; sustained systems of state security; enabled practices of colonial rule; perpetuated racist and gendered forms of identification and classification; regulated and policed migration; shaped the eugenically inflected medicalization of disability and sexuality; and contained dissent. While surveillance is thus bound up with complex relations of power, it is also contested. Emerging from the book is a sense of how state actors understood and legitimized their own surveillance practices, as well as how these practices have been implemented in different times and places. At the same time, contributors explore the myriad ways in which these systems of surveillance have been resisted, challenged, and subverted."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Unpacking State Surveillance: Histories, Theories, and Global Contexts p. 3 / Emily Van Der Meulen and Robert Heynen

Section 1 Medical, Disease, and Health Surveillance p. 31

2 "Coolie" Control: State Surveillance and the Labour of Disinfection across the Late Victorian British Empire p. 35 / Jacob Steere-Williams

3 Surveillance, Medicine, and the Misterios de la Naturaleza: Campaigns to "Cure" Deafness in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico City p. 58 / Holly Caldwell

4 "Masquerading as a Woman": The South African Disguises Acts and the Ghosts of Apartheid Surveillance, 1906-2004 p. 81 / B Camminga

Section 2 Identification, Regulation, and Colonial Rule p. 105

5 The Penal Surveillant Assemblage: Attainder and Tickets of Leave in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia p. 109 / Ian Warren and Darren Palmer

6 Controlling Transnational Asian Mobilities: A Comparison of Documentary Systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940s p. 133 / Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie and Margaret Allen

7 Bodies as Risky Resources: Japan's Colonial Identification Systems in Northeast China p. 163 / Midori Ogasawara

8 A State of Exception; Frameworks and Institutions of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians, 1948-1967 p. 186 / Ahmad H. Sa'di

Section 3 State Security, Policing, and Dissent p. 211

9 Dossierveillance in Communist Romania: Collaboration with the Securitate, 1945-1989 p. 215 / Cristina Plamadeala

10 The FBI and the American Friends Service Committee: Surveilling United States Religious Expression in the Cold War Era p. 238 / Kathryn Montalbano

11 "When under Surveillance, Always Put on a Good Show": Representations of Surveillance in the United States Underground Press, 1968-1972 p. 261 / Elisabetta Ferrari and John Remensperger

12 "That's Not a Conversation That Belongs to the Museum": The (In)visibility of Surveillance History at Police Museums in Ontario, Canada p. 282 / Matthew Ferguson and Justin Piché and Kevin Walby.

Foreword / David Lyon

Unpacking state surveillance : histories, theories, and global contexts / Emily van der Meulen and Robert Heynen

"Coolie" control : state surveillance and the labour of disinfection across the late Victorian British Empire / Jacob Steere-Williams

Surveillance, medicine, and the misterios de la naturaleza : campaigns to "cure" deafness in late nineteenth-century Mexico City / Holly Caldwell

"Masquerading as a woman" : the South African Disguises Acts and the ghosts of apartheid surveillance, 1906-2004 / B. Camminga

The penal surveillant assemblage : attainder and tickets of leave in nineteenth-century colonial Australia / Ian Warren and Darren Palmer

Controlling transnational Asian mobilities : a comparison of documentary systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940s / Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie and Margaret Allen

Bodies as risky resources : Japan's colonial identification systems in Northeast China / Midori Ogasawara

A state of expectation : frameworks and institutions of Israeli surveillance of Palestinians, 1948-1967 / Ahmad H. Sa'di

Dossierveillance in communist Romania : collaboration with the Securitate, 1945-1989 / Cristina Plamadeala

The FBI and the American Friends Service Committee : surveilling United States religious expression in the Cold War era / Kathryn Montalbano

"When under surveillance, always put on a good show" : representations of surveillance in the United States underground press, 1968-1972 / Elisabetta Ferrari and John Remensperger

"That's not a conversation that belongs to the museum" : the (in)visibility of surveillance history at police museums in Ontario, Canada / Matthew Ferguson, Justin Piché, and Kevin Walby

Afterword / Simone Browne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781487522483

1487522487

9781487503154

1487503156

OCLC:

1089969007