Full Description
Much of the South African government's response to crime—especially in Johannesburg—has been to rely increasingly on technology. This includes the widespread use of video cameras, Artificial Intelligence, machine-learning, and automated systems, effectively replacing human watchers with machine watchers. The aggregate effect of such steps is to determine who is, and isn't, allowed to be in public spaces—essentially another way to continue segregation.
In The Infrastructures of Security, author Martin J. Murray concentrates on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental "answers" to perceived risk and danger. Digitalized surveillance is significant for two reasons: first, it enables monitoring to take place across wide "geographical distances with little time delay"; and second, it allows for the active sorting, identification, and "tracking of bodies, behaviors, and characteristics of subject populations on a continuous, real-time basis." These new software-based surveillance technologies represent monitoring, tracking, and information gathering without walls, towers, or guards.
Contents
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One
Policing the Post-Liberal City: Paradoxes and Contradictions
Chapter Two
Johannesburg in the Geographic Imagination: Agoraphobia and other Obsessions
Chapter Three
Vulnerable Bodies: Self-Protection in a Risky World
Chapter Four
The Surveillant Assemblage:
The Hyper-panoptic Imagination
Chapter Five
The CCTV 'Revolution'
[With Nicky Falkof]
Chapter Six
Colliding Worlds in Micrososm
Chapter Seven
Security by Design: Spatial Management in the Hypermodern City
Epilogue Introduction
Epilogue 1
Jane Alexander Security Exhibition
Epilogue 2
Mosquito Lightning
[Carla Busuttil and Gary Charles]
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