Making Surveillance States

Transnational Histories

Robert Heynen, Emily van der Meulen

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University of Toronto Press
18 September 2019

Society & culture: general; Age groups: adults; Alternative lifestyles; Social groups: clubs & societies; History of science

Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taking a transnational approach, the book challenges us to rethink the presumed novelty of contemporary surveillance practices, while developing critical analyses of the ways in which state surveillance has profoundly shaped the emergence of contemporary societies.

Contributors engage with a range of surveillance practices, including medical and disease surveillance, systems of documentation and identification, and policing and security. These approaches enable us to understand how surveillance has underpinned the emergence of modern states, sustained systems of state security, enabled practices of colonial rule, perpetuated racist and gendered forms of identification and classification, regulated and policed migration, shaped the eugenically inflected medicalization of disability and sexuality, and contained dissent. While surveillance is thus bound up with complex relations of power, it is also contested. Emerging from the book is a sense of how state actors understood and legitimized their own surveillance practices, as well as how these practices have been implemented in different times and places. At the same time, contributors explore the myriad ways in which these systems of surveillance have been resisted, challenged, and subverted.

Edited by: Robert Heynen, Emily van der Meulen
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781487522483
ISBN 10: 1487522487
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 18 September 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Heynen is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University Emily van der Meulen is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University.

Reviews for Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories

""" Making Surveillance States is a new and exciting take on the history of surveillance that will prove to be a valuable addition to the scholarship."" --William Staples, Department of Sociology, Director, Surveillance Studies Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence ""An invaluable book combining histories of the micro-practices of administrative control with the broad sweep of imperial politics in parts of the world long neglected by historiographies of surveillance and state building."" --Keith Breckenridge, The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg ""Making Surveillance States sets a high bar for future work in surveillance history. Providing a sorely needed transnational perspective, the authors show just how essential surveillance was to the development of the medical, judicial, and political systems we have today. This book is especially urgent in this politically explosive moment, as we try to grapple with what the future holds in store for 'surveillance states' around the globe."" --Joshua Reeves, New Media Communications, Oregon State University"