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Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime
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2016
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University of California Press
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With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things—cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies—that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.
With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things—cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies—that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Surveillance Technologies and States of Security
pp. 1-25
2. Taming the Tiger
pp. 26-38
3. Prohesion
pp. 39-98
4. Ni con goma
pp. 99-123
5. Statecraft
pp. 124-159
6. Grasping Surveillance
pp. 160-206
Notes
pp. 207-224
Bibliography
pp. 225-246
Index
pp. 247-254
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| ISBN | 9780520959705 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780520284043 |
| DOI | 10.1353/book.63384 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1087874385 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2019-02-24 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Creative Commons | CC-BY |
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