Technologies of Insecurity : The Surveillance of Everyday Life

Technologies of (In)security examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life.

K .F. Aas, H. O. Gundhus, H. M. Lomell, Introduction: Technologies of (in)security, ; Part 1: (In)security and terror; 1. Daniel Neyland: Mundane terror and the threat of everyday objects; 2. David Lyon: Demanding documents: IDs in state formation, crime control, colonialism and war; Part 2: (In)secure spaces; 3. Francisco Klauser: Spatial articulations of surveillance at the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany; 4. Richard Jones: Checkpoint security; Gateways, airports, and the architecture of security; Part 3: (In)secure virtualities; 5. Mike Nellis: 24/7 /365: Mobility, locability and the satellite tracking of offenders;6. Gavin John Douglas Smith:Empowered watchers or disempowered workers? The ambiguities of power within technologies of security; 7. Hille Koskela: Hijacking surveillance? The new moral landscapes of amateur photographing; Part 4: (In)secure virtualities; 8. Yvonne Jewkes: The role of the internet in the twenty first century prison: Insecure technologies in secure places; 9. Majid Yar: Computer crime control as Industry: Virtual Insecurity and the market for private policing;Part 5: (In)Secure rights; 10. Benjamin Goold: Technologies of surveillance and the erosion of institutional trust; 11. Johanne Yttrl Dahl: Another side of the story: Defence lawyers' views on DNA evidence; 12. Vidar Halvorsen: Torture, terror and rights; Epilogue. Lucia Zedner: The Inescapable Insecurity of security technologies?