James P Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James P Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | James P |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ontario Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2151-330X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 236 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Police education and training: A scoping review of the research literature
Despite their centrality to police legitimacy and operational effectiveness, formal education and training remain under-researched and conceptually inchoate topics. This paper addresses this gap through a scoping review of academic literature published between 2004 and 2023. It systematically maps publication patterns, methodological approaches, disciplinary orientations, and topical and thematic foci to assess the range and character of existing…
Platforms, journalism and the amplification of terror: An ecological account
The exceptional everyday: Terror and the weaponisation of daily life
In a bid to transform social and political circumstances by instilling outsized fear, terrorists orchestrate atrocities that are unsettling, unanticipated and preclude effective countermeasures. Utilising the critical case of explosive devices – the leading method of 'pure' terrorism – this article analyses an important, yet underexplored, dimension of this process: the weaponisation of the familiar and everyday. By repurposing ubiquitous, banal …
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada
As a contentious issue affecting the character, boundaries and future of social order, migration represents a recurrent source of moral panic. While analysts have considered conventional outlets’ role in triggering collective alarm, less is known about social media’s effects on migration’s construction as a social problem. Working with an original dataset of tweets from the 2019 Canadian election, a period of heightened concern and outcry for sig…
Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)
As digital platforms that expand opportunities to create, distribute, and access content online, social media are transforming the policing landscape. While scholars have considered social media’s contradictory effects on police services’ public image and operational capacity, less is known about how patterns of technological use are reported within the mainstream press. Employing a mixed-methods content analysis, this article assesses how Canadi…
Digital nativism: Twitter, migration discourse and the 2019 election
Given its significance for society’s character, future and identity, migration has dominated media discourse. At present, the ascendance of digital platforms which broaden opportunities to produce, share and access content online has ignited debates about migration’s discursive construction. Often approached as promoting tolerance and inclusivity, social media are also believed to unleash xenophobia and intergroup antagonism. Working with a cross…
Digital media and international migration: Twitter discourse during the Canadian federal election
As a contentious, multidimensional issue, migration attracts significant media attention in affluent societies. While analysts have assessed coverage in traditional outlets, less is known about social media – digital platforms that facilitate the creation and sharing of content online. Working with a unique dataset of tweets from the 2019 Canadian federal election, this study analyses migration's representation within visible digital spaces. Empl…
Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction
Answering calls for deeper consideration of the relationship between moral panics and emergent media systems, this exploratory article assesses the effects of social media - web-based venues that enable and encourage the production and exchange of user-generated content. Contra claims of their empowering and deflationary consequences, it finds that, on balance, recent technological transformations unleash and intensify collective alarm. Whether g…
Desired Panic: The Folk Devil as Provocateur
This paper reconsiders the role and status of the folk devil in episodes of moral panic. Interrogating three significant sites of anxiety- school shootings, musical subcultures, and terrorism- it suggests each represents an exceptional case where panics' excessive, asymmetrical, and disproportionate qualities are desired and activated by the very objects of alarm. Devoting considered attention to folk devils' agency and interests, reveals how, in…
Social media and policing: A review of recent research
Studies of social media's impact on policing have emerged in several disciplines, including criminology, sociology, and communications. Despite their insight, there is no unified body of knowledge regarding this relationship. In an attempt to synthesize extant work, bring coherence to the field, and orient future scholarship, this article summarizes research on social media's implications for practices and perceptions of order maintenance. It doe…
Social media and border security: Twitter use by migration policing agencies
Social media are transforming public communication and state-society relations, dynamics distinctly visible in the domains of policing and order maintenance. Despite growing research on this relationship, scholarship has adopted an internalist optic, privileging social media use by domestic law enforcement. Using an original data set, this paper broadens the scale of analysis to consider Twitter usage by federal agencies tasked with border securi…
Report and deport: Public vigilance and migration policing in Australia
Recent escalations in migration control involve the criminalization of non-citizens. In assessing this punitive turn criminologists have highlighted drastic expansions in state sovereignty and coercion. Focusing on the Australian context, this article examines a less noticed trend: the civilianization of migration policing. To facilitate irregular migrants’ removal the government has created tip-lines that encourage private citizens to conduct su…
Mass-mediated surveillance: Borders, mobility, and reality television
This article analyzes the social construction of border surveillance and policing in reality-based television. Utilizing content analytic methods to document and decode popular images of borders, mobility, and insecurity, it assesses three programs from Australia, the UK, and the United States. Despite claims of offering accurate and unfiltered depictions, the programs are ideological and provide visions of enforcement that reinforce stereotypes …
Moral panics by design: The case of terrorism
This article assesses the relationship between terrorism and moral panics to expand understandings of the latter's eruption and orchestration. Answering calls for deeper considerations of folk devils' agentic properties, it interrogates how terrorist methods - the deployment of shocking and exceptional violence to incite fear and stimulate political change - challenge extant understandings of the moral panic framework. Specifically, it argues, in…
Border theatre and security spectacles: Surveillance, mobility and reality-based television
Long central to the exercise of sovereignty and symbolic power, border surveillance and policing are not only being amplified in the name of crime control and counter-terrorism, but exist as mass-mediated sources of fascination and entertainment. Interrogating Border Security: Australia’s Front Line as an example of the emergent genre of border-based reality television, this article examines the program’s cultural meanings and political functions…
Watchful Citizens: Immigration Control, Surveillance and Societal Participation
To refine wholesale accounts of transnationalism, scholars have cited the amplification of border enforcement and immigration control. Whilst received analysis emphasizes multiple processes whether border militarization, mass deportation or the cross-deputization of local authorities, other trends remain unexplored. Employing the insights of scholarship on the diffusion and decentralization of policing and crime control, this work interrogates th…
From nations of immigrants to states of transience: Temporary migration in Canada and Australia
This article analyzes temporary migration schemes in Canada and Australia. Unlike the bulk of affluent states, both countries eschewed guestworker programs for most of the twentieth century, embracing migrants as permanent settlers and future citizens. Acting within neoliberal templates of government, political officials have recently promoted temporary migration as a mechanism of labor market regulation. While valorized workers are extended oppo…
The marketization of multiculturalism: Neoliberal restructuring and cultural difference in Australia
This article assesses the relationship between multiculturalism and neoliberalism, focusing on the Australian context. It analyses recent reforms concerning immigrant integration and cultural diversity, and argues that since the mid-1990s Australian multiculturalism has embodied three central components of state restructuring: heightened demands for sociocultural discipline and conformity; fiscal conservatism and the retrenchment of safety nets; …
Remapping the Border: Geospatial Technologies and Border Activism
This paper analyzes the politics of mapping along the US-Mexico border to explore how humanitarian activists wield geospatial technologies in challenging border securitization. In addition to 'bounding' societies within delimited territorial zones, mapping technologies have recently been elevated to encompass observing, locating, and tracking mobile bodies-outcomes that, in the context of immigration control, have heightened the risk of clandesti…
Knowledge production and nanotechnology: Characterizing American dissertation research, 1999–2009
Mass Migration and the Mass Society: Fordism, Immigration Policy and the Post-war Long Boom in Canada and Australia, 1947-1970
The immediate post-war period was defined by shifts in capitalism's socioeconomic and institutional underpinnings. Commonly known as Fordism, until the early-1970s models of standardized industrial mass-production and robust state planning and intervention were relatively successful in maintaining secular growth in employment, productivity and demand as well as establishing the national economy and society as unified, governable fields. This pape…
Quantifying citizens: Neoliberal restructuring and immigrant selection in Canada and Australia
This article analyzes the ways in which Canadian and Australian immigration policies represent causes and consequences of neoliberal restructuring. Interrogating neoliberalism as a series of political-economic and moral changes derived from the marketization of societal and governmental arrangements, it illustrates how numerically-based ‘points systems’ have been employed as mechanisms for: gauging human capital; establishing indices of risk and …
From Border Control to Border Care: The Political and Ethical Potential of Surveillance
This paper analyzes the use of surveillance by activist groups opposed to the extensive securitization of the US-Mexico border and examines the implications of their activities for scholarship on borders, surveillance, and empowerment. The work of three organizations—the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), No More Deaths, and Humane Borders—is covered. While there is some overlap in their practices, these three organizations, respectively, hav…
Navigating Globalization: Immigration Policy in Canada and Australia, 1945–2007 1
Scholarship on immigration and globalization has failed to adequately analyze the nation‐state’s regulatory capacities, insisting instead that contemporary patterns of migration jeopardize national sovereignty and territoriality. While recognized that states possess the legitimate authority to control their territorial and membership boundaries, recent transformations of these capacities remain largely unanalyzed. This article’s historical analys…
The Prospects for Critical Management Studies in the American Academy of Management
Over the past four years a very diverse group of scholars have gathered at the ‘Critical Management Studies Workshops’ at the National Academy of Management meetings. While attending the sessions and participating in doctoral student and junior faculty consortia, we noticed that many people seemed surprised by the mix of delegates attending these events. Participants seemed to wonder just what they had in common with each other. This kind of sent…
The marketization of multiculturalism: Neoliberal restructuring and cultural difference in Australia
This article assesses the relationship between multiculturalism and neoliberalism, focusing on the Australian context. It analyses recent reforms concerning immigrant integration and cultural diversity, and argues that since the mid-1990s Australian multiculturalism has embodied three central components of state restructuring: heightened demands for sociocultural discipline and conformity; fiscal conservatism and the retrenchment of safety nets; …
Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction
Answering calls for deeper consideration of the relationship between moral panics and emergent media systems, this exploratory article assesses the effects of social media - web-based venues that enable and encourage the production and exchange of user-generated content. Contra claims of their empowering and deflationary consequences, it finds that, on balance, recent technological transformations unleash and intensify collective alarm. Whether g…
Watchful Citizens: Immigration Control, Surveillance and Societal Participation
To refine wholesale accounts of transnationalism, scholars have cited the amplification of border enforcement and immigration control. Whilst received analysis emphasizes multiple processes whether border militarization, mass deportation or the cross-deputization of local authorities, other trends remain unexplored. Employing the insights of scholarship on the diffusion and decentralization of policing and crime control, this work interrogates th…
Remapping the Border: Geospatial Technologies and Border Activism
This paper analyzes the politics of mapping along the US-Mexico border to explore how humanitarian activists wield geospatial technologies in challenging border securitization. In addition to 'bounding' societies within delimited territorial zones, mapping technologies have recently been elevated to encompass observing, locating, and tracking mobile bodies-outcomes that, in the context of immigration control, have heightened the risk of clandesti…
Quantifying citizens: Neoliberal restructuring and immigrant selection in Canada and Australia
This article analyzes the ways in which Canadian and Australian immigration policies represent causes and consequences of neoliberal restructuring. Interrogating neoliberalism as a series of political-economic and moral changes derived from the marketization of societal and governmental arrangements, it illustrates how numerically-based ‘points systems’ have been employed as mechanisms for: gauging human capital; establishing indices of risk and …
Navigating Globalization: Immigration Policy in Canada and Australia, 1945–2007 1
Scholarship on immigration and globalization has failed to adequately analyze the nation‐state’s regulatory capacities, insisting instead that contemporary patterns of migration jeopardize national sovereignty and territoriality. While recognized that states possess the legitimate authority to control their territorial and membership boundaries, recent transformations of these capacities remain largely unanalyzed. This article’s historical analys…
Feedback Obstruction: The Influence of the Information Environment on Employee Turnover Intentions
A model of the relationship between feedback obstruction and employee turnover intent is proposed and tested. Eighty-nine pharmaceutical sales representatives completed questionnaires measuring the value of feedback, feedback obstruction across five sources of information, anxiety, (dis)satisfaction, and turnover intent. Results demonstrate that the obstruction of several feedback sources is significantly correlated with anxiety, (dis)satisfactio…
From nations of immigrants to states of transience: Temporary migration in Canada and Australia
This article analyzes temporary migration schemes in Canada and Australia. Unlike the bulk of affluent states, both countries eschewed guestworker programs for most of the twentieth century, embracing migrants as permanent settlers and future citizens. Acting within neoliberal templates of government, political officials have recently promoted temporary migration as a mechanism of labor market regulation. While valorized workers are extended oppo…
Social media and border security: Twitter use by migration policing agencies
Social media are transforming public communication and state-society relations, dynamics distinctly visible in the domains of policing and order maintenance. Despite growing research on this relationship, scholarship has adopted an internalist optic, privileging social media use by domestic law enforcement. Using an original data set, this paper broadens the scale of analysis to consider Twitter usage by federal agencies tasked with border securi…
From Border Control to Border Care: The Political and Ethical Potential of Surveillance
This paper analyzes the use of surveillance by activist groups opposed to the extensive securitization of the US-Mexico border and examines the implications of their activities for scholarship on borders, surveillance, and empowerment. The work of three organizations—the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), No More Deaths, and Humane Borders—is covered. While there is some overlap in their practices, these three organizations, respectively, hav…
Report and deport: Public vigilance and migration policing in Australia
Recent escalations in migration control involve the criminalization of non-citizens. In assessing this punitive turn criminologists have highlighted drastic expansions in state sovereignty and coercion. Focusing on the Australian context, this article examines a less noticed trend: the civilianization of migration policing. To facilitate irregular migrants’ removal the government has created tip-lines that encourage private citizens to conduct su…
Border theatre and security spectacles: Surveillance, mobility and reality-based television
Long central to the exercise of sovereignty and symbolic power, border surveillance and policing are not only being amplified in the name of crime control and counter-terrorism, but exist as mass-mediated sources of fascination and entertainment. Interrogating Border Security: Australia’s Front Line as an example of the emergent genre of border-based reality television, this article examines the program’s cultural meanings and political functions…
Mass Migration and the Mass Society: Fordism, Immigration Policy and the Post-war Long Boom in Canada and Australia, 1947-1970
The immediate post-war period was defined by shifts in capitalism's socioeconomic and institutional underpinnings. Commonly known as Fordism, until the early-1970s models of standardized industrial mass-production and robust state planning and intervention were relatively successful in maintaining secular growth in employment, productivity and demand as well as establishing the national economy and society as unified, governable fields. This pape…
Digital nativism: Twitter, migration discourse and the 2019 election
Given its significance for society’s character, future and identity, migration has dominated media discourse. At present, the ascendance of digital platforms which broaden opportunities to produce, share and access content online has ignited debates about migration’s discursive construction. Often approached as promoting tolerance and inclusivity, social media are also believed to unleash xenophobia and intergroup antagonism. Working with a cross…
Digital media and international migration: Twitter discourse during the Canadian federal election
As a contentious, multidimensional issue, migration attracts significant media attention in affluent societies. While analysts have assessed coverage in traditional outlets, less is known about social media – digital platforms that facilitate the creation and sharing of content online. Working with a unique dataset of tweets from the 2019 Canadian federal election, this study analyses migration's representation within visible digital spaces. Empl…
Moral panics by design: The case of terrorism
This article assesses the relationship between terrorism and moral panics to expand understandings of the latter's eruption and orchestration. Answering calls for deeper considerations of folk devils' agentic properties, it interrogates how terrorist methods - the deployment of shocking and exceptional violence to incite fear and stimulate political change - challenge extant understandings of the moral panic framework. Specifically, it argues, in…
Holy Time and Sacred Space in Puritan New England
different ways. Because they imposed upon their world an ideology that denied the special sanctity of certain days and places, they created in New England a time and space of homogeneous sanctity. But even as they did so, the Puritans set off particular areas of the time and space they occupied in New England as especially holy. They did this by accepting what seemed to them the given, natural order, the reality of things. Although the Puritans t…
Desired Panic: The Folk Devil as Provocateur
This paper reconsiders the role and status of the folk devil in episodes of moral panic. Interrogating three significant sites of anxiety- school shootings, musical subcultures, and terrorism- it suggests each represents an exceptional case where panics' excessive, asymmetrical, and disproportionate qualities are desired and activated by the very objects of alarm. Devoting considered attention to folk devils' agency and interests, reveals how, in…
Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America
Journal Article Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America. By Dale T. Knobel. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. xx + 251 pp. $25.95.) Get access James P. Walsh James P. Walsh San Jose State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1064–1065, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902197 Published: 01 Decembe…
Solomon Stoddard's Open Communion: A Reexamination
ALTHOUGH there is at present considerable interest in Solomon Stoddard as a theologian and evangelist, it remains true that Stoddard's reputation, such as it is, rests upon his ecclesiology, and in particular upon his defense of an unregenerate (Stoddardism).' But Stoddard's open communion has been generally misunderstood, and it is the purpose of this article to seek the provenance of Stoddardism and to place it in its proper relationship to Sto…
The San Francisco Irish, 1850-1976
Journal Article The San Francisco Mshf 1850–1976. Ed. by James P. Walsh. (San Francisco: Irish Literary and Historical Society, 1978. 150 pp. Illustrations and notes. $5.00.) Get access Gregory H. Singleton Gregory H. Singleton Northeastern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Page 437, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900968 Published…
Holy Time and Sacred Space in Puritan New England
different ways. Because they imposed upon their world an ideology that denied the special sanctity of certain days and places, they created in New England a time and space of homogeneous sanctity. But even as they did so, the Puritans set off particular areas of the time and space they occupied in New England as especially holy. They did this by accepting what seemed to them the given, natural order, the reality of things. Although the Puritans t…
Feedback Obstruction: The Influence of the Information Environment on Employee Turnover Intentions
A model of the relationship between feedback obstruction and employee turnover intent is proposed and tested. Eighty-nine pharmaceutical sales representatives completed questionnaires measuring the value of feedback, feedback obstruction across five sources of information, anxiety, (dis)satisfaction, and turnover intent. Results demonstrate that the obstruction of several feedback sources is significantly correlated with anxiety, (dis)satisfactio…
Mechanics and Citizens: The Connecticut Artisan Protest of 1792
I N the spring of I792 Connecticut artisans joined in a massive petition drive against the state's system of taxation. On May 2, a convention in Norwich drafted the petition, copies of which were then sent to other towns where craftsmen meeting in similar gatherings adopted it. By the time the General Assembly began its May session, more than I,400 craftsmen, from twenty towns spread evenly over the state, had added their names to the protest.' I…
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
The effects of gender on assessment centre evaluations
Assessment centre evaluations of candidates were analysed for evidence of assessor‐assessee sex effects. Results from this investigation revealed a significant main effect for assessee sex, favouring females over males, and a significant interaction effect between the sex composition of the assessor group and assessee sex. These results are compared with past empirical evidence and discussed in the light of current theory
Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America
Journal Article Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America. By Dale T. Knobel. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. xx + 251 pp. $25.95.) Get access James P. Walsh James P. Walsh San Jose State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1064–1065, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902197 Published: 01 Decembe…
Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work. Robert G. Eccles , Dwight B. Crane
Organizational Memory
Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Notes from a Trip Down Memory Lane
The study of cognition in organizations has burgeoned in recent years. Top-down information processing theory suggests that individuals create knowledge structures to help them process information and make decisions. While the benefits of employing such knowledge structures are widely noted, there is a growing concern that they can limit decision makers’ abilities to understand their information environments and thus, compromise their decision ma…
The Prospects for Critical Management Studies in the American Academy of Management
Over the past four years a very diverse group of scholars have gathered at the ‘Critical Management Studies Workshops’ at the National Academy of Management meetings. While attending the sessions and participating in doctoral student and junior faculty consortia, we noticed that many people seemed surprised by the mix of delegates attending these events. Participants seemed to wonder just what they had in common with each other. This kind of sent…
Navigating Globalization: Immigration Policy in Canada and Australia, 1945–2007 1
Scholarship on immigration and globalization has failed to adequately analyze the nation‐state’s regulatory capacities, insisting instead that contemporary patterns of migration jeopardize national sovereignty and territoriality. While recognized that states possess the legitimate authority to control their territorial and membership boundaries, recent transformations of these capacities remain largely unanalyzed. This article’s historical analys…
From Border Control to Border Care: The Political and Ethical Potential of Surveillance
This paper analyzes the use of surveillance by activist groups opposed to the extensive securitization of the US-Mexico border and examines the implications of their activities for scholarship on borders, surveillance, and empowerment. The work of three organizations—the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), No More Deaths, and Humane Borders—is covered. While there is some overlap in their practices, these three organizations, respectively, hav…
Quantifying citizens: Neoliberal restructuring and immigrant selection in Canada and Australia
This article analyzes the ways in which Canadian and Australian immigration policies represent causes and consequences of neoliberal restructuring. Interrogating neoliberalism as a series of political-economic and moral changes derived from the marketization of societal and governmental arrangements, it illustrates how numerically-based ‘points systems’ have been employed as mechanisms for: gauging human capital; establishing indices of risk and …
Knowledge production and nanotechnology: Characterizing American dissertation research, 1999–2009
Mass Migration and the Mass Society: Fordism, Immigration Policy and the Post-war Long Boom in Canada and Australia, 1947-1970
The immediate post-war period was defined by shifts in capitalism's socioeconomic and institutional underpinnings. Commonly known as Fordism, until the early-1970s models of standardized industrial mass-production and robust state planning and intervention were relatively successful in maintaining secular growth in employment, productivity and demand as well as establishing the national economy and society as unified, governable fields. This pape…
Remapping the Border: Geospatial Technologies and Border Activism
This paper analyzes the politics of mapping along the US-Mexico border to explore how humanitarian activists wield geospatial technologies in challenging border securitization. In addition to 'bounding' societies within delimited territorial zones, mapping technologies have recently been elevated to encompass observing, locating, and tracking mobile bodies-outcomes that, in the context of immigration control, have heightened the risk of clandesti…
Watchful Citizens: Immigration Control, Surveillance and Societal Participation
To refine wholesale accounts of transnationalism, scholars have cited the amplification of border enforcement and immigration control. Whilst received analysis emphasizes multiple processes whether border militarization, mass deportation or the cross-deputization of local authorities, other trends remain unexplored. Employing the insights of scholarship on the diffusion and decentralization of policing and crime control, this work interrogates th…
From nations of immigrants to states of transience: Temporary migration in Canada and Australia
This article analyzes temporary migration schemes in Canada and Australia. Unlike the bulk of affluent states, both countries eschewed guestworker programs for most of the twentieth century, embracing migrants as permanent settlers and future citizens. Acting within neoliberal templates of government, political officials have recently promoted temporary migration as a mechanism of labor market regulation. While valorized workers are extended oppo…
The marketization of multiculturalism: Neoliberal restructuring and cultural difference in Australia
This article assesses the relationship between multiculturalism and neoliberalism, focusing on the Australian context. It analyses recent reforms concerning immigrant integration and cultural diversity, and argues that since the mid-1990s Australian multiculturalism has embodied three central components of state restructuring: heightened demands for sociocultural discipline and conformity; fiscal conservatism and the retrenchment of safety nets; …
Border theatre and security spectacles: Surveillance, mobility and reality-based television
Long central to the exercise of sovereignty and symbolic power, border surveillance and policing are not only being amplified in the name of crime control and counter-terrorism, but exist as mass-mediated sources of fascination and entertainment. Interrogating Border Security: Australia’s Front Line as an example of the emergent genre of border-based reality television, this article examines the program’s cultural meanings and political functions…
Mass-mediated surveillance: Borders, mobility, and reality television
This article analyzes the social construction of border surveillance and policing in reality-based television. Utilizing content analytic methods to document and decode popular images of borders, mobility, and insecurity, it assesses three programs from Australia, the UK, and the United States. Despite claims of offering accurate and unfiltered depictions, the programs are ideological and provide visions of enforcement that reinforce stereotypes …
Moral panics by design: The case of terrorism
This article assesses the relationship between terrorism and moral panics to expand understandings of the latter's eruption and orchestration. Answering calls for deeper considerations of folk devils' agentic properties, it interrogates how terrorist methods - the deployment of shocking and exceptional violence to incite fear and stimulate political change - challenge extant understandings of the moral panic framework. Specifically, it argues, in…
Report and deport: Public vigilance and migration policing in Australia
Recent escalations in migration control involve the criminalization of non-citizens. In assessing this punitive turn criminologists have highlighted drastic expansions in state sovereignty and coercion. Focusing on the Australian context, this article examines a less noticed trend: the civilianization of migration policing. To facilitate irregular migrants’ removal the government has created tip-lines that encourage private citizens to conduct su…
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