Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity

Torin Monahan is an associate professor of human and organizational development and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. His writings include Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education (Rutgers University Press).

• Securing the homelandTwenty-four-hour exceptionsSituational awareness of the security industryVulnerable identitiesLeaving others behindResidential fortificationControlling mobilitiesMasculine technologiesCountersurveillance

"Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity is a complex text, grounded in a rich theoretical engagement with neoliberalism and the ways in which it structures the insecurities of our present conditions."(Contemporary Sociology) "Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity advances a compelling analysis of original research to show how modern surveillance practices are constructed within the political framework of our times. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in surveillance, security, or the politics of neoliberalism."- John Gilliom (author of Overseers of the Poor) "Monahan demonstrates how surveillance and security often feed off each other today, but also why we must understand each in its own right. The illuminating case studies show this perfectly."- David Lyon (Surveillance Studies Centre, Queens University, Canada) "Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity is a complex text, grounded in a rich theoretical engagement with neoliberalism and the ways in which it structures the insecurities of our present conditions."(Contemporary Sociology) "Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity advances a compelling analysis of original research to show how modern surveillance practices are constructed within the political framework of our times. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in surveillance, security, or the politics of neoliberalism."- John Gilliom (author of Overseers of the Poor) "Monahan demonstrates how surveillance and security often feed off each other today, but also why we must understand each in its own right. The illuminating case studies show this perfectly."- David Lyon (Surveillance Studies Centre, Queens University, Canada)