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The Surveillance Industrial Complex

Today's surveillance society emerged from a complex of military and corporate priorities that were nourished through the active and cold wars that marked the twentieth century. Two massive confgurations of power state and corporate have become the dominant players. Mass targeted surveillance deep within corporate, governmental and social structures is now both normal and legitimate.

The Surveillance-Industrial Complex examines the intersections of capital and the neo-liberal state in promoting the emergence and growth of the surveillance society. The chapters in this volume, written by internationally-known surveillance scholars from a number of disciplines, trace the connections between the massive multinational conglomerates that manufacture, distribute and promote technologies of surveillance, and the institutions of social control and civil society. In three parts, this collection investigates:

how the surveillance-industrial complex spans international boundaries through the workings of global capital and its interaction with agencies of the state

surveillance as an organizational control process, perpetuating the interests and voices of certain actors and weakening or silencing others

how local political economies shape the deployment and distribution of the massive interactions of global capital/military that comprise surveillance systems today.

This volume will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, management, business, criminology, geography and international studies.

Kirstie Ball is Reader in Surveillance and Organization at the Open University Business School, UK.

Laureen Snider is Professor of Sociology at Queens University, Canada.

The Surveillance-Industrial Complex

A political economy of surveillance

Edited by Kirstie Ball and Laureen Snider

First published 2013
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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2013 selection and editorial material Kirstie Ball and Laureen Snider; individual chapters, the contributors

The right of Kirstie Ball and Laureen Snider to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The surveillance-industrial complex: a political economy of surveillance / edited by Kirstie Ball and Laureen Snider. First Edition.

pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Electronic surveillance. 2. Social control. I. Ball, Kirstie, editor
II. Snider, Laureen, 1944- editor
TK7882.E2S85 2013
362.25-dc23 2012051069

ISBN: 978-0-415-63447-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-09442-6 (pbk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

Contents

KIRSTIE BALL AND LAUREEN SNIDER

PART I International networks and global circuits of surveillance

STEPHEN GRAHAM

DAVID LYON AND ZGN E. TOPAK

ADAM WARREN, MORAG BELL AND LUCY BUDD

MINAS SAMATAS

STPHANE LEMAN-LANGLOIS

PART II Surveillance capacity, industrial infrastructures and resource distribution

ANA ISABEL CANHOTO

JASON PRIDMORE

LAUREEN SNIDER AND ADAM MOLNAR

PART III Ground-level circulations

ROY COLEMAN

BEN BRUCATO

DAVID HARPER, IAN TUCKER AND DARREN ELLIS

GEMMA GALDON CLAVELL

Figures

Map

Tables

Kirstie Ball is Reader in Surveillance and Organization at the Open University Business School, UK. Her research interests focus on surveillance in and around organizations, the surveilled subject, and the surveillance- industrial complex. She is a director of Surveillance Studies Network and a founding editor of Surveillance and Society.

Morag Bell is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests focus on the cultural dynamics of international North-South relations since the late nineteenth century, including ways in which ideas of global public health, jet air travel and philanthropic practices inform debates about risk, representation and networks of knowledge. She has published extensively across a number of disciplines including geography, health, transportation science and international development.

Ben Brucato is a doctoral student in Science and Technology Studies with a specialization in the politics of technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. He is interested in surveillance and militarization of institutions of higher education. Recent work focuses on the intersection of ubiquitous sur-veillance/sousveillance and police violence. His research interrogates the political signifcance of photographic and video images depicting policing behaviors with critical attention toward the technologies that aid in their creation and proliferation.

Lucy Budd is Lecturer in Transport Studies in the Transport Studies Group at the School of Civil and Building engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Dr Budd specialises in commercial air transport research and she has a particular interest in aviation history, airport planning, and airline operations. Her work has appeared in a variety of academic publications including the Journal of Transport Geography, Environment and Planning A, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Social Science and Medicine.

Ana Isabel Canhoto's major area of research and consulting is in marketing information systems, with a focus on the use of customer data. She is particularly interested in the use of transaction data and of publicly available data (e.g. social media) to complement gaps in customer profling. She also researches how organisations identifiy and manage difficult customers, and she chairs the Academy of Marketing's Special Interest Group on Customer Relationship Management. Ana is a senior lecturer in marketing at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a management consultant in the telecommunications industry and as a portfolio manager at a leading media and entertainment company, among others. Ana holds a Ph.D. from the London School of economics, as well as an MBA from London Business School.

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