The Rise of the Information State: the Development of Central State Surveillance of the Citizen in England, 1500–2000

Higgs, Edward

doi:10.1111/1467-6443.00141

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“…The development of technologies and sciences during this period rendered humans and environments countable and knowable at increasingly large scales (Ball et al, 2012;Bowler, 2000;Foucault, 1970Foucault, , 2007Higgs, 2001;Scott, 1998). Interwoven with such practical means, newly dominant mechanistic philosophies seemed to offer European elites the key to finally master nature, to turn it to human politics and industry-both in Europe and in rapidly expanding colonial networks (Césaire, 1972;Delbourgo, 2008;Gottschalk, 2013;Grove, 1996;Reidy & Rozwadowski, 2014).…”

Section: From Kin To Thingmentioning

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Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Cohen¹,

Dannreuther²,

Fraundorfer³

et al. 2023

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1.We show how the dire state of the Earth's rivers entangles intimately with ‘thingifying’ processes at the heart of colonial modernity. Known in many precolonial and Indigenous contexts as person-like kin, we describe how rivers the world over have been re-done primarily as thing – amoral, controllable, a potential commodity like anything else. 2.We develop and work with a provisory concept of kin as those constituents of environments that reciprocally nurture, and contribute to the substance of, one another’s life and well-being. 3.We show how kinship with rivers figures centrally in primarily Indigenous-led struggles in various regions of the globe for the recognition and enforcement of river personhood and rights. This is partly because people are motivated to fight passionately for their kin. 4.With some careful caveats, we argue that associating river kinship exclusively with Indigenous worlds undermines its potential for global impact. Thus, as an apposite case study, the latter part of the paper focuses on some of the social-ecological trends which we suggest are opening up the possibility for the re-establishment of ‘riverkinship’ in the United Kingdom. 5.We reflect on the potential for riverkinship to help cultivate political constellations fitting to the challenges of the Anthropocene

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Section: From Kin To Thingmentioning

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Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Cohen¹,

Dannreuther²,

Fraundorfer³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…This fact has raised some ethical concerns among institutional review boards (ethics committees), especially those that view the collection and analysis of open source information without the express consent of the posters to be ethically problematic (Gearon & Parsons, 2019;Hribar et al, 2014). However, the de-privatized nature of posting to public or ungated spaces on the internet assumes that posters should be, at a minimum, aware that whatever they post is public information and can be surveilled by state agents (Higgs, 2001;Reidenberg, 2014). The imposition of hurdles, which researchers must overcome to collect and use open source data, is antithetical to the production of knowledge.…”

Section: Why Are Crowdsourced and Open Source Data Valuable?mentioning

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Using Digital Open Source and Crowdsourced Data in Studies of Deviance and Crime

Gundur

Berry²,

Taodang

2021

Researching Cybercrimes

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As the internet has become cheaper, faster, and more widely used, the amount of data generated by people has increased exponentially. Much of the data is provided by users' activities, often mundane tasks, like making purchases, engaging in exercise routines, and consuming streaming content. In some cases, these tasks are leveraged by criminal actors; in others, these tasks include criminal activities. Using data to explore patterns of offending and victimization is critical to understanding crime trends in the digital age. This chapter explores how researchers have used open source data collection techniques and have solicited data using crowdsourcing to develop viable data sets to explore social scientific enquiries. These techniques illustrate that it is increasingly possible to gather and solicit information and analytical help to explore deviance, victimization, social taboos, and behaviors that are often kept out of public view but nonetheless impact society.

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“…Higgs, 2001;Gilliom, 2001;Lyon, 1994) and collective welfare (e.g. Sackett, 1993;Manderson, 1999;Glaser, 2000), and cautioned citizens about the dangers posed by crime (e.g.…”

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Give me liberty and give me surveillance: a case study of the US Government's discourse of surveillance

Simone

2009

Critical Discourse Studies

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This article reports the critical discourse analysis of www.lifeandliberty.gov, a website constructed by the US Department of Justice, with the expressed intention to explain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. The analysis reveals a four-part deductive argument that asserts the Act's ability to preserve liberty while enhancing security. Discursive themes appealing to governmental responsibility and authority, national security, individual liberty, historical consistency and legislative efficiency and efficacy support the argument's claims. Despite claims of 'educating citizens', the site's discourse is more similar to propaganda than education, relying on one-sided emotional appeals and fallacious logical propositions. The discourse constructs subjectivities of the government as protector, the American citizen as innocent and terrorists as a foreign menace, in an attempt to preclude dissent of the USA PATRIOT Act specifically, and the US Government's terrorism efforts generally. As such, this discourse functions hegemonically to produce what Foucault has termed 'docile bodies'.

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The Rise of the Information State: the Development of Central State Surveillance of the Citizen in England, 1500–2000

Cited by 44 publications

References 41 publications

Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Riverkin: seizing the moment to remake vital relations in the UK and beyond

Using Digital Open Source and Crowdsourced Data in Studies of Deviance and Crime

Give me liberty and give me surveillance: a case study of the US Government's discourse of surveillance

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