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Postcolonial Surveillance

Europe's Border Technologies between Colony and Crisis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvAnouk Madörin

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-15
Mått150 x 228 x 11 mm
Vikt263 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieChallenging Migration Studies
Antal sidor188
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538196250

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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 2015Chapter 6: A Thousand Crises: Notes on the State of Exception Works Cited About the Author

Postcolonial Surveillance considers the long history of European border regimes, focusing on the colonial predecessors of today’s border technologies. Undertaking a longue durée approach to uncover how Europe’s pre-digital colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present, Madörin shows how colonial practices live on in the European Union’s border migration policies, border security, and surveillance apparatuses. She exposes the consistent racial hierarchies and power relations that form these systems, highlighting key moments when the past and present interact and collide, such as in panoptic surveillance, biopolitical registers, and biometric sorting. This specialized work will appeal strongly to those researching surveillance regimes, racism, migration, and postcolonialism more generally. Highly recommended. Faculty, researchers, and professionals.