Managing dangerous populations: Colonial legacies of security and surveillance

Yael Berda

doi:10.1111/socf.12042

Managing dangerous populations: Colonial legacies of security and surveillance

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	627-630
Number of pages	4
Journal	Sociological Forum
Volume	28
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12042
State	Published - Sep 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Classification
Colonial period
Power
Security
Social control
Surveillance

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Sociology and Political Science

UN SDGs

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Managing dangerous populations: Colonial legacies of security and surveillance

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