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PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

ISBN-101538123584

ISBN-139781538123584

eBay Product ID (ePID)16038377090

Product Key Features

Number of Pages242 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGlobalization and Surveillance

SubjectGlobalization, International Relations / General, Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Social Science / Privacy & Surveillance)

Publication Year2020

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science

AuthorTimothy Erik Ström

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2019-050119

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsIn an important and timely intervention, Timothy Ström has crafted an invaluable conceptual roadmap for understanding the global surveillance economy. This engagingly written and elegantly conceived book locates contemporary surveillance in its broader social contexts with the goal of imagining, against all odds, how these might be different--and better., With a breathtakingly wide brush--both historical and geographical--Tim Ström paints a compelling picture of surveillance as a crucial companion of colonization, capitalism, and war in the modern world. Thankfully, he also offers clues as to how things could be otherwise., Upgrading critiques of surveillance for the twenty-first century, Tim Ström reveals its governing paradox of absolute control and utter powerlessness. Governmental and corporate surveillance technologies are locked into the logic of a system that cannot function if its bosses are not themselves completely submissive. In meticulous detail, Ström shows how the smallest engineering decision rests on histories of colonialism and perpetuates a global system of injustice and inequality and how globalization, as a system of exploitation and oppression, shapes and is shaped by the software we so often see as helpful and at worst neutral. A wake-up call for citizens, consumers, students, and activists.

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal303.3

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Prelude: "You're in Control" 1 Surveying Surveillance: Overseers, Enclosures, and Colonization 2 The Atom and the Watchtower: Cybernetics, War, and the Reorganization of the World 3 Welcome to the Machine: Google's Commodification Engines and the Web of Power 4 The Overlords of Automated Debt: China, Usury, and the Financialization of the South Conclusion: The Limits of Control Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

SynopsisThis book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance. The story that unfolds is wide-ranging, taking a thoroughly multidimensional and transdisciplinary approach that brings clarity to a complex subject. Drawing a long historical arc, and freely crisscrossing the Global North/South and subjective/material divides, Timothy Erik Ström convincingly shows how surveillance and capitalism are inextricably linked, illustrating this through in-depth studies on colonial land surveys, the military-industrial complex, Google, and China's Social Credit System. Drawing on a wealth of empirical examples and theoretically informed reflections, his book is an accessible example of engaged scholarship that provides a provocative and critical examination of the uneven and contradictory meanings and consequences of surveillance and globalization., This book offers a lively, accessible and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance. The story that unfolds is wide-ranging, taking a thoroughly multidimensional and transdisciplinary approach that brings clarity to a complex subject. Drawing a long historical arc, and freely crisscrossing the Global North/South divide, Timothy Erik Stroem traces a narrative beginning with colonial land surveys. He convincingly shows how surveillance and capitalism are inextricably linked, illustrated through in-depth studies on Google and China's Social Credit System and the broader reconfiguration of everyday life. Drawing on a wealth of empirical examples and historical context, his book is a theoretically informed but accessible example of engaged scholarship that provides a provocative and critical examination of the uneven and contradictory subjective and material social meanings and consequences of surveillance and globalization., This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance. Ström traces the increasing levels of control wielded by the state, science and capital, and critically examines the social meaning and consequences of surveillance and globalization., This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance. The story that unfolds is wide-ranging, taking a thoroughly multidimensional and transdisciplinary approach that brings clarity to a complex subject. Drawing a long historical arc, and freely crisscrossing the Global North/South and subjective/material divides, Timothy Erik Str m convincingly shows how surveillance and capitalism are inextricably linked, illustrating this through in-depth studies on colonial land surveys, the military-industrial complex, Google, and China's Social Credit System. Drawing on a wealth of empirical examples and theoretically informed reflections, his book is an accessible example of engaged scholarship that provides a provocative and critical examination of the uneven and contradictory meanings and consequences of surveillance and globalization.

LC Classification NumberHV7936.T4S77 2020