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The Ubiquitous View: Surveillance, Imagination, and the Power of Being Seen

open access: yesOn_Culture, 2018
The _Essay discusses the relation between surveillance and imagination. It unfolds the argument that surveillance as a form of (political) oppression is necessarily centering on a decisionistic act of the individual who has to opt for deviant or ...
Jörn Ahrens
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Global Public Health Surveillance under New International Health Regulations

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
The new International Health Regulations adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2005 (IHR 2005) represents a major development in the use of international law for public health purposes.
Michael G. Baker, David P. Fidler
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Can human rights law bend mass surveillance?

open access: yesInternet Policy Review, 2014
There is an increasing gap between the right to privacy and contemporary surveillance schemes. As a concrete example, the US surveillance operation PRISM and its impact on European citizens’ right to privacy is discussed.
Rikke Frank Joergensen
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Are schools panoptic? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Schools are often understood by social researchers as panoptic spaces, where power is exercised through constant surveillance and monitoring. In this paper, I use Foucault’s notorious account of the Panopticon as a point of departure for a detailed ...
Gallagher, M.
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Gift politics: exposure and surveillance in the anthropocene

open access: yesCrime, Law and Social Change, 2017
This article discusses the role of gift relations in the Anthropocene. We reinterpret Mauss’s original concept of the gift to understand its application and transformation in a social context that increasingly sees human behavior as a resource for the realization of governmental and corporate objectives.
Schuilenburg, Marc, Peeters, Rik
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IMF Surveillance and Financial Markets - A Political Economy Analysis [PDF]

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member
Julien Reynaud, Marcel Fratzscher
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Addressing new aspects of surveillance in late mediaeval England, 1350-1550

open access: yesMos Historicus
The paper addresses new aspects of surveillance in late medieval England. New approaches to the study of the phenomenon are introduced, while a limited study puts some of the author’s suggestions to the test.
Manos Chatziathanasiou
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Images of Suspicion: Surveillance Photos in the Brazilian Political Police Archives

open access: yes, 2012
Between its foundation under President Vargas in the 1930s until its closure with the end of the Military Dictatorship in 1983, the Brazilian Political Police Archive accumulated more than one hundred thousand photographs, These pictures, now held in the
Bastos, Teresa, Lissovsky, Mauricio
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Watching Black Youth: Algorithmic Surveillance and the Shrinking Civic Space in Indonesia and Nigeria

open access: yesHuman Rights in the Global South
This article examines how algorithmic surveillance reshapes civic space in Indonesia, with particular attention to its differentiated impact on racially marginalised youth. It employs the term “black youth” as a critical analytical category rather than a
Abubakar Muhammad Jibril
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Surveillance in Africa: Politics, Histories, Techniques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
African countries are home to dense sociotechnical arrangements of registration, monitoring, and spying that are increasingly transnational as well as digital. Despite decades of work devoted to the politics, histories, and techniques of surveillance and control in Western societies, there is very little work on the local exigencies and manifestations ...
Martin, Aaron   +2 more
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