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Making Things Stick

Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime
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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.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publish DateFebruary 22, 2016
Pages270
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780520284043
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches | 0.8 pounds

About the Author

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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