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Abstract [en]
This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political history. The book is motivated by asking what makes video surveillance "tick" in three very different cultural settings, two of which (Poland and Sweden) are virtually unexplored in the literature on surveillance. The selection of countries is motivated by an interest in societies with recent experiences of authoritarianism, and how they respond to the global trend towards intensified technical means of control. With thorough empirical studies, the book constitutes an important contribution to security studies, surveillance studies, and post-communist area studies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2013. p. 218
Series
Routledge studies in science, technology and society, E-ISSN 2156-0765 ; 19
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies) Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-17198 (URN)10.4324/9780203082904 (DOI)2-s2.0-84916973092 (Scopus ID)978-0-415-62860-0 (ISBN)
2012-10-152012-10-152025-02-20Bibliographically approved