Table of Contents

Foreword / 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

Part 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

Part 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

Part 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

Part 4: Participatory Surveillance and Resistance

11 Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piché

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

References

Index

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A careful examination of surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.

About the Author

Sean P. Hier is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. Josh Greenberg is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

Contributors: Charlene D. Elliott, Neil Gerlach, Kevin D. Haggerty, Sheryl N. Hamilton, Laura Huey, Simon J. Kiss, Mike Larsen, Shoshana Magnet, Patrick F. Parnaby, Justin Piché, C. Victoria Reed, Joseph Scanlon, Scott Thompson, Kevin Walby, and Dwayne Winseck

Reviews

This particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases.
*Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (3)*