SOCI 3810 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Governmentality, Risk Society, Neoliberalism
18 Apr 2016
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Surveillance as well as the idea of governmentality is closely related to the concept of social control. Terrorist when borders are policed), and everyday lived experiences of marginalizaion and oppression (french, 2011, p. 253). It is increasingly used to police border spaces (manifested in the airport), through. Cctv cameras, biometric technologies, proiling passengers and assigning them a level of risk simply by observing and surveying their behavior (which is much easier to do than personal interrogaion, and it raises less legal issues). What this does is it covertly sorts people into categories, producing sets of knowledge about them. According to french this creates feedback loops, whereby this informaion reinforces exclusionary (someimes racist) pracices, that in turn afect the numbers consequently used for further future predicions of undesirable behavior.
