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... and voyeuristic surveillance, but prison officers deny any sexual content in these procedures while satisfying their professional gatekeeping tasks—the maintenance of carceral boundaries effectively blurring any formal distinctions between voyeuristic desire and bureaucratic duty. The state’s securitization...

...Gerald D. McKnight Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and the FBI: A Case Study in Urban Surveillance Gerald D. McKnight On 11 February 1968, the eve of Lincoln s birthday, several hundred black sanitation workers proclaimed by a show of hands...

...Brian Dolber This article explores how Rideshare Drivers United (RDU), a fledgling union of app‐based drivers in California, works in dialectical relationship to processes of surveillance capitalism. First, the article gives a brief history of RDU's organizing strategy in the lead‐up to two strikes...

... and affective frames of contemporary homonormativity. The essay explores these ideas through two examples of engagements with past public toilet spaces. The first example is Tearoom , a film (2007) and accompanying book (2008) by William E. Jones, which presents footage from covert police surveillance...

...Sarah Lamble This article considers the state’s punitive response to the civil unrest that swept across England in August 2011. Surveying measures taken by police, courts, and politicians—including lengthy prison sentences, violent police raids, increased surveillance, and proposals for new benefit...

... of the abnormal and the militarization of everyday life appear in the proliferation of armed and dangerous gated communities, the presence of the invisible de rigueur house gun or house arsenal, invisible surveillance, and civilian passive acquiescence to stop-and-frisk encounters as well as in the mass...

... the terminals requires relentless and consistent maintenance, surveillance, and security along the route. Thus, whether pipelines traverse international borders or stay within national territories, they end up imposing the absolute sovereignty of a unified legal regime along the entire route. The nature...

... as a social problem. The method is critical fabulation. State violence, surveillance, and detention produce the archival traces and institutional records that inform the reconstruction of these lives; but desire and the want of something better decide the contours of the telling. The narrative emulates...

... normal.” Yet even a cursory review of protest policing in Canada reveals that state intervention in resistance movements is alive and well and that Indigenous peoples and allied social movements are made subject to repression, surveillance, and criminalization through the mechanism of injunctions...

... traffic stops, revenue policing from fines and fees, the overreach of automobile-related surveillance, the predatory auto loan and repossession businesses, and criminal justice debt—all shot through with profound racial bias. In the autocentric United States, transportation is a basic need, yet it has...

..., and their observations demonstrate that “bunker archeology,” as Virilio has called it, is linked to the modern history of warfare and to attempts to escape ever more destructive weapons and ever more penetrating surveillance. The American saga of nuclear fallout shelters was an avatar of this history, one that has been...

...—offers increased security but also brings into question enduring values in Republican France, including the sovereignty and freedom of each individual, his or her independence from harassment and surveillance, as well as of thoughts and actions. Vigipirate brings into question the continued viability...

... of neoliberal regime, characterized by a state of permanent austerity that requires increased surveillance and policing to maintain it. This illustrates Nicos Poulantzas’s suggestion in the 1970s that authoritarian statism is becoming the normal form of the capitalist type of state but rests...

... . Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet . New York : PublicAffairs . Marchant Eleanor , and Stremlau Nicole . 2020 . “ A Spectrum of Shutdowns: Reframing Internet Shutdowns from Africa .” International Journal of Communication 14 : 4327 – 4342 . Milmo Dan...

... out paperwork at the booking window. The low resolution pixelates the unfolding image as the continuous long shot mediates the frame. More impressionistic than high definition, the image surveils as it conceals. Two other uniformed officers casually talk in the background, while a third waits...

... . “ The Neoliberal Firm and Nested Subsumption: Labour Process Transformations in the NYC Taxi Industry .” Urban Studies 52 , no. 11 : 2051 – 71 . Zuboff Shoshana . 2019 . The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power . New York : Public...

...: Some Initial Enquiries .” In Class and Librarianship: Essays at the Intersection of Information, Labor and Capital , edited by Estep Erik Enright Nathaniel . Sacramento : Library Juice Press . Zuboff Shoshana . 2019 . The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human...

... sensibilities while the conditions of the plantation account for absolute sites of surveillance, power, and captivity. Maroon studies scholar Ronald Cummings (2018) notes a hesitancy in collapsing freedom and not freedom to marronage and the plantation, respectively, and offers marronage as assemblage...

... of surveillance. Said Sen­ ator Edward Long, in convening a recent Senate subcommittee investigating government uses of electronic bugging devices: Tech­ nologically, 1984 has already come. The vastness of the diverse and multiplying infringements on personal privacy suggests that 1984 has become more than...

... and reliant on multiple logistical systems. Trans- portation systems are key, as are the digital and surveillance systems that con- stitute them, but so are the systems of “humanitarian logistics” and “refugee logistics” wherein states and corporations aim to govern crises of many kinds through...