Anouk Madörin

Postcolonial Surveillance (eBook, PDF)

Europe's Border Technologies between Colony and Crisis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today's border technologies. The book takes a longue durée perspective to uncover how Europe's colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present and has morphed into EU border migration policies, border security, and surveillance apparatuses. It exposes the racial hierarchies and power relations that form these systems and highlights key moments when the past and present interact and collide, such as in panoptic surveillance, biopolitical registers, biometric sorting, and deterrent media infrastructure. The technological genealogies assembled in this book reveal the unacknowledged histories that had to be rejected for the seemingly clean, unbiased, and neutral technologies to emerge as such.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881861476
• Artikelnr.: 74833425

Autorenporträt

Anouk Madörin is a lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: The European Border Regime: Conditions of Emergence in a
Mediated World
Chapter 2: The View From Above: The Traffic of Non-White Bodies in the
Mediterranean World
Chapter 3: Data on Bodies: Colonial Ordering from Windhoek to Lesbos
Chapter 4: Bodies of Data: (Early) Biometrics from the Colony to the Border
Chapter 5: Viral Deterrence: Sex, Risk, and Contagion ca. 1920 and 2015
Chapter 6: A Thousand Crises: Notes on the State of Exception
Works Cited
About the Author