Managing Dangerous Populations: Colonial Legacies of Security and Surveillance |
| |
Authors: | Yael Berda |
| |
Institution: | Department of Sociology, Princeton University, , Princeton, NJ, 08540 |
| |
Abstract: | We tend to associate practices of population surveillance with Western modernity and the intensification of security routines with the last decade defined by the “Global War on Terror.” I suggest, however, that proliferation of methods to monitor and control populations are legacies of the practices that were developed in the colonies to manage civilian populations. Here, I outline those institutional colonial legacies. |
| |
Keywords: | classification colonial period power security social control surveillance |
|
|