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Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective
Author(s): Fredrika Björklund (Editor), Ola Svenonius
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 May 2015
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 1138920622
- ISBN-13: 9781138920620
Book Description
This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political history. The book is motivated by asking what makes video surveillance “tick” in three very different cultural settings, two of which (Poland and Sweden) are virtually unexplored in the literature on surveillance. The selection of countries is motivated by an interest in societies with recent experiences of authoritarianism, and how they respond to the global trend towards intensified technical means of control. With thorough empirical studies, the book constitutes an important contribution to security studies, surveillance studies, and post-communist area studies.
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About the Author
Fredrika Björklund is Associate Professor in Political Science at Södertörn University.
Ola Svenonius is a Political Science lecturer at Södertörn University and a PhD candidate at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) and Stockholm University.
