Dreams of Control at a Distance

Gender, Surveillance, and Social Control

Bibliographic Data

ID2408271
AuthorsTorin Monahan (0000-0002-9055-399X)
Year2009
Volume9
Issue2
Pages286-305
Publication date2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708608321481
OpenAlexW2086735435
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited36

Modern surveillance systems operate upon masculine logics of disembodied control at a distance. As such, they artificially abstract bodies, identities, and interactions from social contexts in ways that both obscure and aggravate gender and other social inequalities. This article explores the gender dimensions of surveillance systems in several public domains: welfare, healthcare, and transportation. By exposing the dominant rationalities of such systems and critiquing the discourses that support them, one can challenge the supposed neutrality of such technologies and question the power relations to which they give rise. The goal of this article, therefore, is to introduce a new line of inquiry into gender and surveillance, one that perceives surveillance as operating on the level of abstraction but with embodied effects for women and men

Abstraction · Control (management · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Inequality · Neutrality · Political science · Power (physics · Public relations · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Artificial Intelligence · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology

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