Dreams of Control at a Distance: Gender, Surveillance, and Social Control  

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Monahan, Torin

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 9 no. 2 (Apr. 2009), page 286-305.
Topik: surveillance; technology; gender; social control; space
Fulltext: 12. Dreams of Control at a Distance - Gender, Surveillance, and Social Control.pdf (138.41KB)

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Modern surveillance systems operate upon masculine logics of disembodied control at a distance. As such, they artificially abstract bodies, identities, and interactions from social contexts in ways that both obscure and aggravate gender and other social inequalities. This article explores the gender dimensions of surveillance systems in several public domains: welfare, healthcare, and transportation. By exposing the dominant rationalities of such systems and critiquing the discourses that support them, one can challenge the supposed neutrality of such technologies and question the power relations to which they give rise. The goal of this article, therefore, is to introduce a new line of inquiry into gender and surveillance, one that perceives surveillance as operating on the level of abstraction but with embodied effects for women and men.

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