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Surveillance and Space
The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart-phone applications, or smart traffic and navigation systems. Surveillance is nothing fundamentally new, and yet more and more questions are being asked: Who monitors whom, and how and why? How do surveillance techniques affect socio-spatial practices and relationships? How do they shape the fabrics of our cities, our mobilities, the spaces of the everyday? And what are the implications in terms of border control and the exercise of political power? Surveillance and Space responds to these modern questions by exploring the complex and varied interactions between surveillance and space. In doing so, the book also advances a programmatic reflection on the very possibility of a ‘political geography of surveillance’.
Claude Raffestin - zu einer Geographie der Territorialität
English summary: Claude Raffestin decisively influenced the French, Italian, and Portuguese geography of the 1980s and 1990s. However, in German-speaking regions, Raffestin's theory of territoriality is barely known. This anthology intends to bring together the key components of a geography of territoriality according to Claude Raffestin's definition and make it available for the German language area. It opens up not only a new perspective on the concept of territoriality as a geographical approach to the program of spatial social existence, but the critical reception of Raffestin also provides a key contribution to the German debate on space of recent years. German text. German description:...
Video Surveillance
This book brings into focus the ways in which the implementation of cameras and systems, and their operation and technical features, are the product of decisions and policies made ina variety of contexts and by a variety of authorities and interested parties. It examines the cultural contextin which cameras are deployed and explores how this context can shape their diffusion and use. The bookplaces particular emphasis on studies of video surveillance in different national, institutional, cultural andlinguistic settings.pIOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics
Critical Risk Research
Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics offers a collection of essays, written by a wide variety of international researchers in risk research, about what it means to do risk research, and about how – and with what effects – risk research is practiced, articulated and exploited. This approach is based upon the core assumption that: to make a difference in the study of risk, we must move beyond what we usually do, challenging the core assumptions, scientific, economic and social, about how we study, frame, exploit and govern risk. Hence, through a series of essays, the book aims to challenge the current ways in which risk-problems are approached and presented, both conceptually by a...
Surveillance and Space
Considering the possibility of a "political geography of surveillance", this book provides readers with a critical exploration of the interplay between surveillance and space.
Die Videoüberwachung öffentlicher Räume
Die Videoüberwachung öffentlicher Räume, vom Parkhaus bis zur S-Bahn-Station, hat in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen. Kaum ein anderes Instrument verdeutlicht besser die aktuelle Sicherheitsdebatte in unseren Städten. Francisco Klauser zeigt die gesellschaftlichen und räumlichen Auswirkungen dieser neuen Form sozialer Kontrolle. Dabei relativiert er das Bild der Videoüberwachung als allseits akzeptiertes, technisches Instrument und thematisiert gleichzeitig das neue Verhältnis zwischen der Freiheit des Einzelnen und der Frage der öffentlichen Sicherheit.
A Violent Peace
"Confronted with the roiling changes of the post-WWI world--from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements--the League of Nations aimed to counteract dangerous conflicts between national interests and generate instead a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on truth and justice. Amid widespread anxiety over truth and falsehood, an army of League personnel produced streams of documents in the pursuit of "shaping global public opinion." Combining the tools of global intellectual history and cultural history, A Violent Peace explores the power and the vulnerability of information systems while laying bare "the anatomy of fascism" in the interwar period. Carolyn Biltoft reopens the archives of the League to show how its attempt to operationalize information science in support of the post-WWI order proved ultimately pyrrhic as informational power struggles devolved into violence. A meditation on instability in information systems, the allure of fascism, and the contradictions at the heart of a global and violent modernity, A Violent Peace paints a rich portrait of the emergence of the age of information--and all its attendant problems"--
