Wilson, Dean and Weber, Leanne (2008) Surveillance, risk and preemption on the Australian border. Surveillance & Society, 15 (2). pp. 124-141. ISSN 1477-7487

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Abstract

In this paper we will map and analyze Australian border surveillance technologies. In doing so, we wish to interrogate the extent to which these surveillance practices are constitutive of new regimes of regulation and control. Surveillance technologies, we argue, are integral to strategies of risk profiling, social sorting and “punitive pre-emption.” The Australian nation-state thus mirrors broader global patterns in the government of mobility, whereby mobile bodies are increasingly sorted into kinetic elites and kinetic underclasses. Surveillance technologies and practices positioned within a frame of security and control diminish the spaces that human rights and social justice might occupy. It is therefore imperative that critical scholars examine the moral implications of risk and identify ways in which spaces for such significant concerns might be forged.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Sociology
Research Centres and Groups:	Crime Research Centre
Depositing User:	Dean Wilson
Date Deposited:	29 Nov 2017 16:25
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2017 09:21
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71666

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