VIDEO-SURVEILLANCE OF URBAN SPACE: TRAFFIC, SECURITY AND SOCIAL CONTROL

Authors

  • Nelson Arteaga Botello Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v7i14.108

Keywords:

Surveillance, guvernmentality, social control, social care, surveillance technologies

Abstract

In recent years, in Mexico and globally, closed circuit television (CCTV) has become the most pervasive surveillance model for urban spaces to record the daily activities of people. CCTV is not only a divices to support policies on security, organization of traffic, but instrument of social and political control. Taking the case of two municipalities in Mexico, this paper analyzes how these surveillance technologies allowing a certain management of the city as well as different forms of governmentality of population.

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Author Biography

Nelson Arteaga Botello, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

Doctor en Sociología. Profesor Investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y So- ciales de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) Nivel 1.

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Published

2010-08-16