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This seminar involves critical overviews of surveillance and security studies, historically and in the contemporary moment. We will discuss the work of some of the key thinkers in these areas today. We shall also look closely at the contributions of Michel Foucault, which remains central to the ways in which securitization and surveillance are approached in the social sciences. And we will discuss the extension of Foucauldian insights in the work of key interlocutors such as Didier Bigo and Paul Rabinow. Seminar participants will become familiar with processes of securitization in a variety of contexts, from nineteenth-century colonial government to US national security, war, and counterterrorism. We will examine processes such as gatedness, risk, preparedness and, of course, the cultural production of fear. From biometric technologies to refugee displacement and from migration control to bioterror, this seminar involves close attention to contemporary examples with the aim of staking out an anthropological position in relation to security.
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