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  Surveillance and Identity: Discourse, Subjectivity and the State (Hardback) By (author) David Barnard-Wills

  

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  Short Description for Surveillance and IdentityAnalyses the discourse of surveillance in the contemporary United Kingdom, drawing upon public language from central government, governmental agencies, activist movements, and from finance and banking. This book presents a study of the discursive politics of surveillance in the UK.
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  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • Published: 01 January 2012
  • Format: Hardback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Media Studies | Sociology | Social Theory | Constitution: Government & The State | Central Government Policies | Political Control & Freedoms | Civil Rights & Citizenship
  • ISBN 13: 9781409430728 ISBN 10: 1409430723

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• "Surveillance and Identity" analyses the discourse of surveillance in the contemporary United Kingdom, drawing upon public language from central government, governmental agencies, activist movements, and from finance and banking. Examining the logics of these discourses and revealing the manner in which they construct problems of governance in the light of the insecurity of identity, this book shows how identity is fundamentally linked to surveillance, as governmental discourses privilege surveillance as a response to social problems. In drawing links between new technologies and national surveillance projects or concerns surrounding phenomena such as identity fraud, "Surveillance and Identity" presents a new understanding of identity - the model of 'surveillance identity' - demonstrating that this is often applied to individuals by powerful organisations at the same time as the concept is being actively contested in public language. The first comprehensive study of the discursive politics of surveillance in the UK, this book makes significant contributions to surveillance theory, governmentality theory, and to political and social identity theories. As such, it will be of interest to social scientists of all kinds working on questions of public discourse and political communication, identity, surveillance and the relationship between the individual and the state.