Surveillance And Democracy

Description

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? As surveillance measures are increasingly justified in terms of national security, is there the prospect that a shadow "security state" will emerge? How might new surveillance measures alter the conceptions of citizens and citizenship which are at the heart of democracy? How might new communication and surveillance systems extend (or limit) the prospects for meaningful public activism? Surveillance has become central to human organizational and epistemological endeavours and is a cornerstone of governmental practices in assorted institutional realms. This social transformation towards expanded, intensified and integrated surveillance has produced many consequences. It has also given rise to an increased anxiety about the implications of surveillance for democratic processes; thus raising a series of questions – about what surveillance means, and might mean, for civil liberties, political processes, public discourse, state coercion and public consent – that the leading surveillance scholars gathered here address. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Contributors......Page 11 Introduction: Surveillance and democracy: an unsettled relationship......Page 18 Part I: Theorizing surveillance and democracy......Page 34 Chapter 1: Surveillance and transparency as sociotechnical systems of accountability......Page 36 Chapter 2: Identification, surveillance and democracy......Page 51 Chapter 3: Democracy and its visibilities......Page 68 Chapter 4: Periopticon: control beyond freedom and coercion – and two possible advancements in the social sciences......Page 86 Part II: Surveillance policies and practices of democratic governance......Page 106 Chapter 5: Surveillance as governance: Social inequality and the pursuit of democratic surveillance......Page 108 Chapter 6: Democracy, surveillance and “knowing what’s good for you”: The private sector origins of profiling and the birth of “Citizen Relationship Management”......Page 128 Chapter 7: The impact of communications data retention on fundamental rights and democracy – the case of the EU Data Retention Directive......Page 144 Chapter 8: “Full Spectrum Dominance” as European Union Security Policy: On the trail of the “NeoConOpticon”......Page 165 Part III: Case studies in the dynamics of surveillance and democracy......Page 188 Chapter 9: A trans-systemic surveillance: The legacy of communist surveillance in the digital age......Page 190 Chapter 10: Balancing public safety and security demands with civil liberties in a new constitutional democracy: The case of post-1994 South Africa and the growth of residential security and surveillance measures......Page 212 Chapter 11: The Greek Olympic phone tapping scandal: A defenceless state and a weak democracy......Page 230 Chapter 12: Surveillance and democracy in the digital enclosure......Page 248 Index......Page 264