Capturing Gender and Class Inequities: The CCTVisation of Delhi

Rathi, Aayush; Tandon, Ambika

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3460243

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“…Such groups would value surveillance much more than those who routinely received the care of the state. Similar findings were reported in research done in Delhi regarding the installation of CCTVs for safety purposes (Rathi and Tandon 2019). Women and residents from slums supported the installation because they believed that being under the watchful eyes of the police/state, something that is otherwise denied to them, would contribute to their "safety."…”

Section: State Invisibility and The Allure Of Surveillancesupporting

confidence: 76%

CCTVs and the Criminal City

Narayan

2023

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This paper investigates how surveillance technologies used by the police, such as close circuit cameras (CCTVs) along with facial recognition, further solidify the perception of poor areas of the city as criminal, thus limiting the opportunities of the residents of these areas culturally, socially, and economically. Slums, immigrant colonies, and shanty towns have long been considered hotbeds of crime and illegal activities. These areas are generally marked as unsafe in the popular imagination. I am interested to see how (and if) communities in these spaces modify their behaviour in order to escape the extra watchful presence of the state in the form of CCTV cameras. I also want to see how these spaces evolve in terms of their interaction with other parts of the city as a result of the use of such exacerbated surveillance technologies. This paper is based on ongoing ethnographic work in one such marked area in the North East part of Delhi where video footage from CCTV cameras, along with mobile phone cameras, was extensively used for police investigations (with additional use of a standalone facial recognition program) following deadly riots that killed a record number of people in the area and destroyed many businesses in February 2020.

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Section: State Invisibility and The Allure Of Surveillancesupporting

confidence: 76%

CCTVs and the Criminal City

Narayan

2023

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“…A substantial body of critical work is found in surveillance studies (Galič, Timan, and Koops 2017). The focus on the use of digital technologies for security and policing leads these authors to pay attention to the pervasive quality of the surveillance enabled by these tools, which makes privacy more and more elusive (Rathi and Tandon 2019). These different bodies of work thus paint starkly contrasting pictures of the potential impact of digitalization on urban life: while the literature on smart cities sketches a digitally enhanced urban utopia (Miller et al 2021), surveillance studies warn us against the dystopian, Orwellian dimension of digital technologies (Purandare and Parkar 2021).…”

Section: Digitalization and Urban Governance: A Brief Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction. The Digitalization of Urban Governance in India

Parkar,

Lama

2023

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“…In some cases, such as India's unique identification system Aadhaar, which is based on an individual's biometric and demographic data, the ostensible aim is to improve access to public services and welfare schemes (Drèze et al 2017, Krishna 2019. Likewise, their exposure to video surveillance is justified in terms of greater safety and security (Rathi & Tandon 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%