HIST 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Governmentality
Document Summary
Citizens under suspicion: responsive research with community under. Nypd demographics unit, designed to put american citizens under surveillance. Scrutinized what they ate, prayed, and worked because of their ethnicity. Governmentality evident in the discipling of individuals and groups into assuming, or believing, they are always being watched. Nypd demographics unit employed informants, undercover agents, and close communities in new york city. Surveillance functions also serves to socially control and discipline entire communities and factions of the populace in unique and precis ways. Young individuals start to watch themselves to avoid conflict. Discipling particular forms of engagement out of public space. Surveillance of muslim communities is enacted upon individuals and communities deemed suspicious by the state rather than simply as a response to an act. The fear and suspicion of muslim bodies not a ramification of post-9/11 hysteria but rather a reanimation of longstanding images of the muslim in cultural discourse. Over the last decade rise in anti-muslim hate crimes.
