Surveillance and Democracy

The collection is structured over three areas of discussion: theorizations of surveillance and democracy, surveillance policies and their relationship to practices of democratic governance, and a series of case studies of global consequence. In a broad sense, goals such as social progress (comprisin...

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Published in:Surveillance & Society 2011, Vol.8 (4), p.544
Main Author: Fussey, Peter
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Customer relationship management
Debates
Democracy
Stereotypes
Studies
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Summary:The collection is structured over three areas of discussion: theorizations of surveillance and democracy, surveillance policies and their relationship to practices of democratic governance, and a series of case studies of global consequence. In a broad sense, goals such as social progress (comprising inter alia personal satisfaction, educational achievement and environmental sustainability) are regularly ignored or reduced to issues of technical efficiency or economic gain; in Weberian terms, then, an articulation of the modernist transition from substantive to formal rationality. [...] this refers to the competing functions and aspirations of the varying domains in which the subject traverses.
ISSN:1477-7487