Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime

Keith Guzik

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2016

Making Things Stick

Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime

Keith Guzik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520959705

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With Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things—cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies—that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.

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Guzik Keith :

Keith Guzik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver. He is the author of Arresting Abuse and the co-editor of The Mangle in Practice.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Surveillance Technologies and States of Security Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Taming the Tiger Open Access Download PDF	26
3. Prohesion Open Access Download PDF	56
4. Ni con goma Open Access Download PDF	99
5. Statecraft Open Access Download PDF	141
6. Grasping Surveillance Open Access Download PDF	177
Notes Open Access Download PDF	207
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	225
Index Open Access Download PDF	247

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 270

eBook

Published: February 22, 2016
ISBN: 9780520959705