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Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test

open access: yesSurveillance & Society, 2021
As the world seemed undecided in praising China’s crisis management through what was formerly called networked authoritarianism (MacKinnon 2011), countries such as Iran showed no interest in extending its notorious political surveillance practices into ...
Azadeh Akbari
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Surveillance Capital and Post-Fordist Accumulation: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance-for-Profit

open access: yesSurveillance & Society, 2022
This article presents a critical political economy of contemporary surveillance-for-profit. The article makes the central argument that surveillance capital emerged out of the contradictions of capitalist accumulation and remains subject to the ...
Markus Kienscherf
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The political economy of surveillance in the (wannabe) global city

open access: yesSurveillance & Society, 2011
Many authors have highlighted the need to look at the political economy of surveillance in order to provide a comprehensive picture of our increasingly surveilled societies.
Gemma Galdon Clavell
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Surveillance Reports of National Units of the Red Army Political Departments in 1918–1920

open access: yesLatvijas Universitātes Žurnāls. Vēsture, 2023
While surveillance as a  mechanism of political control was a  common prac-tice of states even before the First World War, the introduction of the Political Departments to the Red Army in 1918–1920 was a completely new historical-military phenomenon ...
Toivo Kikkas
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"Living in the File": Kinship & Political Surveillance in Post-Civil War Greece

open access: yesSurveillance & Society, 2017
Little attention has been paid to the ways in which political surveillance practices have historically intersected with a cultural logic of kinship or actual kin relationships, despite the fact that intergenerational effects of state surveillance have ...
Katherine Pendakis
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Surveillance Cinema: Narrative between Technology and Politics

open access: yesSurveillance & Society, 2011
Taking as a starting point the recent surge in film and television narratives constructed around and by surveillance technologies, this essay offers a historical and theoretical reexamination of the manner in which screen narrative has organized ...
Catherine Zimmer
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Understanding Attitudes Toward Police Surveillance: The Role of Authoritarianism, Fear of Crime, and Private-Sector Surveillance Attitudes

open access: yesSurveillance & Society
Public attitudes toward domestic police surveillance have important implications for its political salience and regulation. An increasing number of jurisdictions have sought to regulate law enforcement surveillance, in part due to growing concerns over ...
Camille Conrey, Craig Haney
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Disappearing Citizenship: surveillance and the state of exception

open access: yesSurveillance & Society, 2009
Surveillance is an ancient concept and an ancient practice.  As such, we must undertake a theoretical examination of surveillance that looks at the changes in the function of surveillance within a juridical-political model, rather than superficially ...
Jeremy Douglas
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Authoritarian Surveillance: An Introduction

open access: yesSurveillance & Society
Authoritarian surveillance is no longer an exceptional or rare practice. In many parts of the world, we are witnessing an increase of pervasive government monitoring, of curtailing privacy protections, of stringent control of information flows, and of ...
Lior Volinz
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Protesters’ Reactions to Video Surveillance of Demonstrations: Counter-Moves, Security Cultures, and the Spiral of Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance

open access: yesSurveillance & Society, 2018
This article analyses protesters’ reactions to police video surveillance of demonstrations in Germany. Theoretically, we draw on the concept of a “spiral of surveillance and counter-surveillance” to understand the interaction processes which ...
Peter Ullrich, Philipp Knopp
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