surveillance & security - technological politics & power in everyday life

[...]... intended to correct (Winner 1977) As sociotechnical systems, then, surveillance and security are intimately intertwined with institutions, ideologies, and a long history of social inequality (Lyon 2001; Gandy 1993) From this standpoint, one can begin to ask the kinds of questions worth asking and answering—questions about power Questioning Surveillance and Security •  Why Do We Believe in Trade-offs?... sociology, criminology, anthropology, science and technology studies, women’s studies, geography, philosophy, political science, and new media studies it is our hope that others will join us in questioning, critiquing, and intervening in surveillance and security regimes in everyday life T.M ChapTer 1 Questioning Surveillance and Security Torin Monahan unfortunately, security and liberty form a zero-sum equation... 1993, two ten-year-old schoolboys kidnapped and murdered two-year-old Jamie Bulger in Merseyside, United Kingdom Questioning Surveillance and Security •  Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage showed Bulger being led by the hand out of a shopping center unbeknownst to his distracted mother he boys proceeded to take him on a two-and-a-half mile walk, periodically beating him and taunting him along... social inequalities unless technological systems and security policies are designed and regulated to minimize social sorting functions, they will likely continue to engender greater human insecurity into the future Some of the cases analyzed in this section include the surveillance and sorting of bodies along borders and in airports, the generation of locational data by everyday technologies and infrastructures... counterterrorism Questioning Surveillance and Security •  and intelligence-gathering tools (Lyon 2003b) Perhaps the hottest area of development, along these lines, is in biometrics, meaning the range of technologies designed to measure and classify unique human attributes Biometrics can include ingerprinting systems, face-recognition technologies, hand-geometry scanning, iris and/or retinal scans, odor identiication,...  • Torin Monahan trade-ofs are security versus liberty, security versus privacy, security versus freedom, and security versus cost But, seemingly, once the issues are presented in these terms, the only thing let to decide is whether the public is willing to make the necessary sacriices to bring about greater national security Absent are discussions about the politics behind surveillance and security. .. neoliberal surveillance to analyze the governance of mobilities, identities, and securities in this emergent terrain, the passive tracking of individuals is becoming a mere by-product of (seemingly) ubiquitous information technologies such as mobile phones, global positioning systems, smart cards, and the internet he iltering of identities into categories of inclusion and exclusion based on informational... crossing in the most dangerous parts of the desert in Arizona and dying at record rates (Cornelius 2001) he social relations produced are those of empowerment for private industries, disempowerment, dependency, and danger for poor or marginalized groups, and inlexibility for the nation-state to provide both police security and human security for the people within—and outside—its borders Indeed, security. .. selectively and with varying intensities according to one’s social address (Phillips and Curry 2003); as such, surveillance can—and does—structure unequal power relations in societies (Cameron 2004; Van der Ploeg 2005; Kupchik and Monahan forthcoming) Hille Koskela (2000), writing about video surveillance in Finland, adds to these observations a strong feminist critique She inds that public surveillance does... Social Relations Do Surveillance and Security Systems Produce? he question of what social relations are produced through the incorporation of surveillance into daily life directs inquiry toward a rich set of data, far less constrained than questions about trade-ofs or eicacy A diferent way of phrasing the question might be, “What efects do surveillance and security systems have on power, inequality, or . Number-10: 0-4 1 5-9 539 3-6 (Softcover) 0-4 1 5-9 539 2-8 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 97 8-0 -4 1 5-9 539 3-1 (Softcover) 97 8-0 -4 1 5-9 539 2-4 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted,. without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Surveillance and security : technological politics and power in everyday life / Torin Monahan, editor. p. cm. Includes. others will join us in questioning, critiquing, and intervening in surveillance and security regimes in every - day life. T.M. 1 CHAPTER 1 Questioning Surveillance and Security TORIN MONAHAN Unfortunately,