Citizenship and identity in the age of surveillance / Pramod K. Nayar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nayar, Pramod K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.

Citizenship--Social aspects.

Social control.

Information society.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Citizenship & Identity in the Age of Surveillance

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a study of cultures of surveillance, from CCTV to genetic data-gathering and the new forms of subjectivity and citizenship that are forged in such cultures. It studies data, bodies and space as domains within which this subjectivity of the vulnerable individual emerges. The book also proposes that we can see a shift within cultures of surveillance where, from active participation in the process of surveilling, a witness-citizen emerges. The book therefore seeks to alter surveillance as a mere top-down system, instead arguing that surveillance is also a mode of engagement with the world enabling trust, accountability and eventually a responsible humanitarianism.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Vulnerability, Safety, Surveillance; Constructing the vulnerable citizen; Constructing safety; Surveillance; 2 Bodies and Biosurveillance; Surveillance and corporeality; Disappearance; Reappearance; Biosurveillance and biobanks; Surveillance, sorting and citizenship; Social sorting; Biological citizenship; Vulnerable bodies, consuming bodies and the rise of the surveilled self; 3 Data and Data Subjects; The data age; The personal information economy and the data subject; The vulnerable data subject; Interiority and privacy; Data doubles

Data theftGenetic privacy and the vulnerable data subject; The responsible surveilled subject; 4 Spaces of Surveillance; Splintering urbanisms and the spaces of surveillance; Infrastructural segmentation and privatized governance; Surveilled subjectivity in secure spaces; The rise of 'defensible space'; The 'landscaping of fear'; Cultural trauma, vulnerability, social splitting; Cultural trauma and the culture of surveillance; Vulnerable citizen, neighbourhood watch and citizenship; Valorizing the consumer citizen in space; Surveillance, governance and cultural autonomy

Surveillance and the subject afraid of difference5 Performative Surveillance and the Witness-Subject; Objectification, self-surveillance and the new regimes of the self; Performative surveillance; Reality TV and surveillance drama; Interactivity and surveillance; Loyalty cards, information-sharing and cultural membership; Talk shows, self-disclosure and cultural scripts for change; Witnessing and dissident surveillance; Video activism and mobile witnessing; Sting operations, leaks and the political; The rise of the witness-subject; 6 Surveillance and Global Witness Citizenship; Witnessing

Eyewitnessing and bearing witnessWitnessing as occupation; Witnessing memory; Transcultural memory and global mnemonic itineraries; Global witness citizenship; Frames of (global) witnessing; Surveillance, global witnessing and compassionate cosmopolitanism; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-27225-7

1-316-27223-0

1-316-27227-3

1-316-27229-X

1-316-27231-1

1-316-27235-4

1-139-94651-X