Technologies of Insecurity: The Surveillance of Everyday Life

Book Overview

Technologies of InSecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life.

Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security constructed and addressed by various local actors and embodied in a variety of surveillance systems? Examining how various forms of contemporary insecurity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415599792
• ISBN13: 9780415599795
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"