The globalization of surveillance : the origin of the securitarian order / Armand Mattelart ; translated by Susan Gruenheck Taponier and James A. Cohen.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2010Description: v, 249 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780745645100 (hbk.) :; 0745645100 (hbk.); 0745645119 (pbk.); 9780745645117 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Globalisation de la surveillance. English. Subject(s): Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects | Privacy, Right of | National security | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 書 | 世新大學圖書館 三樓西文圖書區 | 圖書 | 303.483 Ma77 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | E119909 |
"First published in French as La globalisation de la surveillance, Editions La D ecouverte, Paris, France, 2007."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Surveillance: delinquency as a political observatory -- Punishing: the apprehended multitude -- Managing mass society: the lessons of total war -- The Cold War and the religion of national security -- 'Civic action' or the reappropriation of the national security doctrine -- Counterinsurgency, the crossroads of expeditionary forces -- The internationalization of terror -- The new domestic order -- War without end: the techno-security paradigm -- The European police area -- The traceability of bodies and goods.
Armand Mattelart constructs a genealogy of the power of control and examines the globalising dynamic of surveillance and terror. He provides a wake-up call at a time when democratic societies are becoming less and less vigilant against the dangers of proliferating systems of surveillance.
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