Technologies of insecurity : the surveillance of everyday life /
Contributor(s): Aas, Katja Franko | Gundhus, Helene Oppen | Lomell, Heidi Mork.
Publisher: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2009Description: xi, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415464550 (hbk.); 9780415464550:; 0415464552 (hbk.).Subject(s): Internal security![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 363.232 AAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0060033 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mundane terror and the threat of everyday objects / Daniel Neyland -- Identification practices: state formation, crime control, colonialism and war / David Lyon -- Spatial articulations of surveillance at the FIFA World Cup 2006TM in Germany / Francisco R. Klauser -- Checkpoint security : gateways, airports and the architecture of security / Richard Jones -- 24/7/365 : mobility, locatability and the satellite tracking of offender / Mike Nelis -- Empowered watchers or disempowered workers? The ambiguities of power within technologies of security? Gavin John Douglas Smith -- Hijacking surveillance? The new moral landscapes of amateur photographing / Hille Koskela -- The role of the Internet in the twenty-first century prison: insecure technologies in secure spaces / Yvonne Jewkes -- Computer crime control as industry: virtual insecurity and the market of private policing / Majid Yar -- Technologies of surveillance and the erosion of institutional trust / Benjamin Goold -- Another side of the story: defence lawyers' view on DNA evidence/ Johanne Yttri Dahl -- Catastrophic moral horror : torture, terror and rights / Viday Halvorsen.
'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.