The Global Homeland State: Bush's Biopolitical Settlement

Impeach the traitors: citizenship, sovereignty and nation in immigration control activism in the United States

“…Even as active citizenship within the public sphere was devalued, patriotism or a strong identification with the nation became a primary mark of the good citizen: we all love America and the one who loves it most is the best citizen. Since 2001, these processes were exacerbated by post-9/11 politics as the nation was frequently presented by the state as beleaguered, Social Semiotics 169 in a state of permanent emergency and therefore in need of a strong, even authoritarian, state to protect it (Pease 2003;Kaplan 2004). The minutemen, at least partially, reject this reformulation of citizenship and the nation, despite being conservative cultural nationalists (and in some cases selling merchandise on their websites).…”

In the name of terror?: Information and policy in the decade post 9/11

“…Scholars in many disciplines are trying to make sense of these changes, from sociologists Kevin Haggerty and Ericson (2006) who refer to surveillance as “the organizing principle of modernity” and the analysis of how we can live in a “liquid modern world” in the era of ubiquitous surveillance from David Lyon and Zygmut Bauman (2012) to social theorist Megan Boler (2008) who examines the changing media landscape and the potential of digital media as a site of resistance or dissent, and from author/playwright David Mamet (2004) who examines the societal affects of the terminology employed in post‐9/11 legislation and policy to historian David Pease (2003) who explores the reconstruction of the concept of international borders by these policy changes. Consider the implications of a sampling of major post‐9/11 information‐related U.S. laws on libraries (Jaeger, Bertot, & Gorham, in press): The USA PATRIOT Act and the rights of government agencies to collect a wide range of physical and electronic library records and to observe a wide range of patron behaviors in libraries; Changes to the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) which allow agencies such as the NSA to widely collect the cellphone data of international citizens as well as American citizens. The Homeland Security Act, which enables government agencies to limit the availability of government information and to take information out of library collections; The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the need to filter Internet access for all library computers – and thereby reduce the information patrons can access – in order to receive certain types of funding; The E‐government Act, which ultimately encouraged many government agencies to offload the training and support for use of their online services to public libraries. The Federal Communication Commission's 2010 Broadband Plan , which suggests defunding libraries to promote private sector growth of broadband access. …”

Ten years later: Information and policy in the aftermath of 9/11

“…Scholars in many disciplines are trying to make sense of these changes, from sociologists Kevin Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson (2006) who refer to surveillance as “the organizing principle of modernity” to social theorist Megan Boler (2008) who examines the changing media landscape and the potential of digital media as a site of resistance or dissent, and from author/playwright David Mamet (2004) who examines the societal affects of the terminology employed in post‐9/11 legislation and policy to historian David Pease (2003) who explores the reconstruction of the concept of international borders by these policy changes. The implications of these laws, policies, and practices in the information field are enormous.…”