The performative dimension of surveillance
Jacob Riis’ how the other half lives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8074597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reginald Twigg (University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 305-328 |
| Publication date | 1992-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462939209359654 |
| OpenAlex | W2039319968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
In Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault suggests that by the end of the nineteenth century the techniques of surveillance were deployed in all facets of life in order to discipline and thereby control the body as a site of opposition. Nowhere were the operations of surveillance more acute than in American cities where diverse immigrant cultures needed to be normalized in order to promote the capitalist social order. Tenement reform literature, particularly when illustrated by documentary photographs, employed surveillance techniques that discursively produced and controlled Otherness in terms of manageable categories of race, gender, and class. A critical analysis of Jacob A. Riis' How the Other Half Lives reveals that the activities of observing produced a rhetoric of the image that derived its ideological power from its complex affiliations with hegemonic cultural discourses. In Riis' text, self and Other are configured as functions of discourse where the forbidden zones of the dangerous classes are made public in order to be managed by New York's bourgeoisie
Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Critical discourse analysis · Hegemony · Ideology · Media studies · Opposition (politics · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Scientific Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |