Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories

Published by University of Toronto Press 2019

Making Surveillance States

Transnational Histories

Edited by: Robert Heynen and Emily van der Meulen

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487517298

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About this book

This book brings together a diverse range of transnational contributors to offer one of the first comprehensive and global histories of state surveillance.

Author / Editor information

Heynen Robert :

Robert Heynen is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University
van der Meulen Emily :

Emily van der Meulen is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University.

Reviews

Keith Breckenridge, The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg:

"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."

William Staples, Department of Sociology, Director, Surveillance Studies Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence:

"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."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword David Lyon Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Unpacking State Surveillance: Histories, Theories, and Global Contexts Emily Van Der Meulen and Robert Heynen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Section One: Medical, Disease, and Health Surveillance
2. “Coolie” Control: State Surveillance and the Labour of Disinfection across the Late Victorian British Empire Jacob Steere-Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Surveillance, Medicine, and the Misterios de la Naturaleza: Campaigns to “Cure” Deafness in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico City Holly Caldwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. “Masquerading as a Woman”: The South African Disguises Acts and the Ghosts of Apartheid Surveillance, 1906–2004 B. Camminga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Section Two: Identification, Regulation, and Colonial Rule
5. The Penal Surveillant Assemblage: Attainder and Tickets of Leave in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Australia Ian Warren and Darren Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
6. Controlling Transnational Asian Mobilities: A Comparison of Documentary Systems in Australia and South Africa, 1890s to 1940s Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie and Margaret Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
7. Bodies as Risky Resources: Japan’s Colonial Identification Systems in Northeast China Midori Ogasawara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
8. A State of Exception: Frameworks and Institutions of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians, 1948–1967 Ahmad H. Sa’di Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Section Three: State Security, Policing, and Dissent
9. Dossierveillance in Communist Romania: Collaboration with the Securitate, 1945–1989 Cristina Plamadeala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
10. The FBI and the American Friends Service Committee: Surveilling United States Religious Expression in the Cold War Era Kathryn Montalbano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
11. “When under Surveillance, Always Put on a Good Show”: Representations of Surveillance in the United States Underground Press, 1968–1972 Elisabetta Ferrari and John Remensperger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
12. “That’s Not a Conversation That Belongs to the Museum”: The (In)visibility of Surveillance History at Police Museums in Ontario, Canada Matthew Ferguson, Justin Piché and Kevin Walby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Afterword Simone Browne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Other: 10 figures
Keywords: surveillance history; identification and registration; colonialism and colonial relations; resistance and dissent; migration; state security; the Cold War; medical and health surveillance

eBook

Published: October 21, 2019
ISBN: 9781487517298