This article illustrates the multiple ways in which anthropology graduate students crossed the boundaries of educational discourses by encouraging themselves, other students, activists and community leaders to speak in dialogical contexts (Giroux 2005: 73). They did this through the organisation of the Interrogating Diversity Conference. The authors organised this conference in March 2007 at the American University, Washington, DC, to expand scholarship on surveillance and policing in an egalitarian forum. We discuss how students can engage their departments and faculty in building the students' knowledge of both anthropological theories and methodology through shared scholarship. We show how students can 'apply' anthropology to audiences, which will in turn influence policy decision making. In addition, the authors explore how academics can transform knowledge sharing into tools that shape broader political and social dialogue.
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Maria-Amelia Viteri and Aaron Tobler
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Jun 2009
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- 23–45 (23 total)
Ira J. Allen
One of the sharpest indications of the raw power of ubiquitous surveillance is that it appears directly, as such, so infrequently in pop culture. It is hard to see ubiquitous surveillance, and the harder something powerful is to see, generally
Damien Smith Pfister
SAFEHOME is that surveillance of this biophysical data, combined with extant surveillance of textual messaging, search patterns, social networking sites, and discussion boards would alert law enforcement officials to a prospective shooter. Think Minority
In Screen Bodies
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- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Article Commentary
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- 111–116 (6 total)
Laura A. Sparks
crops up,” in Paul Virilio's (2007) terms, what is invented by the War on Terror, our tolerance of enhanced surveillance practices, and our willingness to treat human bodies as a means to an end. Just as the US public relented to increased government
Surveillance, Discipline and Care
Technologies of Compliance in a South African Tuberculosis Clinic
Jonathan Stadler
digital surveillance technologies. These technologies produce adherence as an objective fact that can be monitored, measured and modified. Compliance is narrowly defined in terms of ‘professional expectations’ while ignoring behaviour that ‘contradicts the
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 58–84 (27 total)
Sarah Young
and explanations of surveillance: the panoptic and Orwellian models. Panoptic surveillance, theorized by Michel Foucault (1977) , centers on Jeremy Bentham and his brother's circular prison model and likens the discipline imposed here to other
Barbara Madeloni
Neoliberal policies in teacher education marginalise faculty voice, narrow conceptions of teaching and learning and redefine how we know ourselves, our students and our work. Pressured within audit culture and the constant surveillance of accountability regimes to participate in practices that dehumanise, silence and de-form education, teacher educators are caught between compliance and complicity or the potential and risks of resistance. Written from my lived experience within the neoliberal regime of teacher education, this article examines the vulnerabilities, fears and risks that shape our choices, as well as the possibilities for ethical, answerable action.
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Mar 2014
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- Research Article
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- 79–91 (13 total)
Video Surveillance in Portugal
Political Rhetoric at the Center of a Technological Project
Catarina Frois
This article gives a detailed account of the political processes and stages involved in the implementation of video surveillance devices in two major Portuguese cities, Oporto and Lisbon. It seeks to draw two main conclusions regarding the introduction of these systems in public areas and the developments that they have undergone over the period under analysis. The first is that installing these devices reflects a political response designed to provide a hasty solution to a social phenomenon—fear—that is largely subjective. The second is that the generalized perception as to the uncertainty of the effectiveness of these systems explains the lack of consistency and coordination in their implementation. The article concludes by discussing fear and insecurity in the context of concerns for a more efficient justice system.
A. James McAdams
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies in western democracies are turning increasingly to electronic surveillance tools in their efforts to identify and combat new terrorist threats. But this does not mean that they are equally equipped to undertake these measures. As the author shows by comparing surveillance activities in three countries—Great Britain, the United States, and Germany—the Federal Republic's more restrictive legal norms and institutions provide its government with much less freedom of maneuver than its allies.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2007
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- Discussion
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- 70–88 (18 total)
La Police de l'Air
Amateur Radio and the Politics of Aural Surveillance in France, 1921-1940
Derek W. Vaillant
As France wrestles over the uses and societal impact of digital media and the Internet, it is instructive to recall another era of communications innovation, namely the introduction of interwar radio to the French public, and the government's reaction to controversial applications by the citizenry. Recent scholarship has underscored the importance of interwar radio broadcasting to France and its territories. Less explored, however, is the work of amateur user/developers who shaped the radio medium as an instrument of speaking, as well as listening. Determined to manage applications of radio, the French Interior Ministry formed a Police de l'Air to monitor France's airwaves, including the activities of amateur radio users (i.e., hams), whose lawful (and sometimes unlawful) use of point-to-point and broadcast communication had begun to significantly disrupt the government's effort to dictate the future forms and uses of radio. Against a backdrop of political crisis and attempts to manage print and electronic communication and dissent, the skirmishes between the Police de l'Air and amateur radio users reveal historical aspects of contemporary debates over use, access, and qualifications to speak and be heard in mediated cultural and political settings.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2010
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- Research Article
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- 1–24 (24 total)