×


 x 

Shopping cart
29%OFFKeith Guzik - Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico´s War on Crime - 9780520284043 - V9780520284043
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico´s War on Crime

€ 40.99
€ 29.20
You save € 11.79!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico´s War on Crime Paperback. With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, this title offers an analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. It presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat. Num Pages: 262 pages, 22 color photographs, 4 graphs. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things-cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies-that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
262
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520284043
SKU
V9780520284043
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Keith Guzik
Keith Guzik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver. He is the author of Arresting Abuse and the co-editor of The Mangle in Practice.

Reviews for Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico´s War on Crime

Goodreads reviews for Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico´s War on Crime


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!