Surveillance as biopower

Ceyhan, Ayşe

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“…The exigent aim of this risk management is to transform unknowable and incalculable risks into something which appear both visible and thus manageable (Power, 2004: 30). Surveillance is deployed ‘to capture the contingent features of the ‘uncertain’' (Ceyhan, 2012: 38).…”

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Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies

Oaten

Jordan

Chandler

et al. 2022

Critical Social Policy

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Suicide prevention policies set out government strategies and priorities for action and in doing so construct meanings, legitimise knowledge and frame possibilities. Despite their importance, prevention policies remain underexamined and taken for granted. Using Bacchi's poststructuralist ‘What's The Problem Represented To Be’ approach we critically analyse UK suicide prevention policies as sites of biopolitical surveillance and consider how suicide is constructed within such policy regimes. Drawing on Foucault, we contextualise suicide as an object and focus of biopolitical surveillance. We argue that suicide prevention policies seek to negate the contingency and complexity of suicide and instead represent it as amenable to biopolitical governance. Prevention policies do this by framing suicide as a visible and predictable object that can be known and governed via surveillance driven risk management. Such policies risk marginalising some publics, and diverting attention from the political, social and economic contexts of injustice in which suicides occur.

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Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies

Oaten

Jordan

Chandler

et al. 2022

Critical Social Policy

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“…For critical security studies with a Foucaultian inspiration, dual-use emerges as a problem of organising circulations. For Foucault, circulation is 'the space of the operations of human beings and defines the principle of organization of modern biopolitics' (Ceyhan 2012). As explained by Aradau and Blanke (2010: 44), security to Foucault referred to biopolitical practices of 'organising circulation, eliminating its dangers, making a division between good and bad circulation, and maximizing the good circulation by eliminating the bad' (Foucault 2007: 18).…”

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Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance

Calcara¹,

Csernatoni²,

Lavallée³

2020

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Antonio Calcara, Raluca Csernatoni and Chantal Lavallée; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Antonio Calcara, Raluca Csernatoni and Chantal Lavallée to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. With the exception of Chapter 11, no part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.Chapter 11 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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“…With the integration of China’s large camera surveillance network with facial recognition technology, the Chinese government will have the ability to cross-reference surveillance footage with other kinds of digital data on individuals in the centralised database (Wang, 2017). Such developments chime with Foucault’s theory of biopower, where he asserts that the regulation of the body is the best and most efficient method for states to govern people (Ceyhan, 2012). Foucault (1991) argues that a succession of control techniques to produce obedient and loyal citizens is vital in the survival of a state, and parallels can be seen with the technological tools used in China’s SCSP.…”

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We’re just data: Exploring China’s social credit system in relation to digital platform ratings cultures in Westernised democracies

Wong

Dobson

2019

Global Media and China

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Social media platforms and apps have become increasingly important tools for governance and the centralisation of information in many nation states around the globe. In China, the government is currently piloting a social credit system in several cities in an ambitious attempt to merge a financial credit score system with a broader quantification of social and civic integrity for all citizens and corporations. China has already begun to experiment with metrics and quantification of the value and virtue of its citizens, going beyond the function of measuring workplace performance and health-related selftracking to measuring one's purchasing and consumption history, interpersonal relationships, political activities, as well as the tracking of one's location history. China has also already begun to apply a reward and punishment system that rewards those who comply with the Chinese government's ideals and punishes those who deviate from them. Although there are no such ambitiously unified systems currently proposed in Western liberal democratic countries, some aligned structures and cultures of social media use are already well in place. This article seeks to offer a comparative examination of the structures and cultures of China's social credit system with those which are already present and in place in Western liberal democratic countries. While it may be convenient to digitise everyday social, political and economic life, China's social credit system brings about a vision of what may be to come, should democratic countries continue to do so without stricter data use policies in place.

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Surveillance as biopower

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Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies

Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies

Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance

We’re just data: Exploring China’s social credit system in relation to digital platform ratings cultures in Westernised democracies

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