Surveillance and the Dossier

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Record Keeping, Vulnerability, and Reputational Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvMaCristina deleine Plamadeala,Macristina Deleine Plamadeala,Cristina Plamadeala,Özgün Erdener Topak

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Surveillance and the Dossier delves into how dossiers, both paper-based and digital, have been used by governments both historically and in contemporary times to inflict various forms of violence upon the public, including psychological, physical, and reputational. This volume establishes dossier creation as the foundational practice of all bureaucracies, despite differences in how it has been weaponized as a technique of power by different systems. In nine case studies, ranging from police dossiers in Nazi Germany to China's Hukou family dossier system, this book examines the evolution of surveillance in societies. Surveillance and society researchers Cristina Plamadeala and Özgün Erdener Topak engage in a diverse yet comprehensive study of this surveillance tool, looking at examples such as dossiers implicating former members of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), dossiers used in Cold War-era Australia to monitor migrants from the Soviet Union, dossiers of colonial Japan’s Unit 731, deployed in Manchukuo, in Northeast China, and dossiers mobilized for Canada’s World War II conscription program. Deeply relevant and imperative, Surveillance and the Dossier seeks to understand the links between the infliction of state-violence and surveillance.This book demonstrates that dossiers serve as a valuable platform for understanding the past and present of surveillance societies across governments and countries.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-19
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt1 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487542153

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‘Surveillance and the Dossier’: Key IssuesCristina Plamadeala and Ozgun Erdener Topak Chapter 1: Change and Constancy: Individual and Group-Based Dossiers and their Evolution in German Police IntelligenceChristoph Felix ButzChapter 2: China’s Household Register: From a "Family Dossier" to a "Surveillance Platform"Marcella Siqueira CassianoChapter 3: “Let’s Pull out Their Files and See”: The file and the reconfiguration of Zimbabwe’s post-coup surveillance architectureAllen MunoriyarwaChapter 4: The Dossier on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: Reputation, Denunciation, and the Surveillance of Soviet Migrants in AustraliaEbony NilssonChapter 5: Classify to Kill: Unit 731 and the Japanese Dossier of Settler Colonial Surveillance in Northeast ChinaMidori OgasawaraChapter 6: Surveillance, Intelligence, and Policing in South America: Risks and dangers of automated profile building through OSINTsAlcides Eduardo dos Reis PeronChapter 7: Securitate Files, Dossiers and Fear: Dossierveillance in Communist Romania under Nicolae Ceauşescu (1965-89) Cristina PlamadealaChapter 8: Our Files Are Never Closed: The Use of Private Sector Surveillance Dossiers in the Enforcement of Government Policy in WWII Canada 1943-1945Scott ThompsonChapter 9: Cataloging 'Enemies': Soviet Proscription Lists, Card Catalogs, and Kompromat Olga VelikanovaAfterword on the Dossier: (Some Notes on the Back)Alexander Monea and Joshua Reeves