Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era: The Eyes and Ears of Power

by Andreas Marklund (Editor), Laura Skouvig (Editor)

Overview

Deploying empirical studies spanning from early Imperial China to the present day, 17 scholars from across the globe explore the history of surveillance with special attention to the mechanisms of power that impel the concept of surveillance in society. By delving into a broad range of historical periods and contexts, the book sheds new light on surveillance as a societal phenomenon, offering 10 in-depth, applied analyses that revolve around two main questions:

• Who are the central actors in the history of surveillance?

• What kinds of phenomena have been deemed eligible for surveillance, for example, information flows, political movements, border-crossing trade, interacting with foreign states, workplace relations, gender relations, andsexuality?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032021539
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/09/2023
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern History
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andreas Marklund is head of research at ENIGMA – the Museum of Communication in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Laura Skouvig is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Introduction: histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era 1

ANDREAS MARKLUND AND LAURA SKOUVIG

2 Big data in early China: population surveillance in the early Chinese empires 20

REBECCA ROBINSON

3 “Consciences are not to bee forced, but to bee Wonne”: the inward turn in Elizabethan homiletic discourse and the legal debate over the ex officio oath in the Court of High Commission, 1570–1593 37

ANNI HAAHR HENRIKSEN

4 Sexual surveillance in Paris and Versailles under Louis XIV 53

NATÁLIA DA SILVA PEREZ

5 Convict surveillance and reform in theory and practice: Jeremy Bentham versus New South Wales 70

MATTHEW ALLEN

6 Surveillance on the assembly line: communist resistance to modern production at the Stollwerck Chocolate Factory, 1924–1930 87

SARA ANN SEWELL

7 Securing the state: the First World War and the birth of the modern surveillance state in Scandinavia 105

NIK BRANDAL, EIRIK BRAZIER AND OLA TEIGE

8 Civil liberties, state police wartime measures, and the case of “the Six” 122

VILLE OKKONEN AND TIINA LINTUNEN

9 Citizen informants, glitches in the system, and the limits of collaboration: Eastern experiences in the Cold War Era 146

CAROL ANNE COSTABILE-HEMING, VALENTINA GLAJAR AND ALISON LEWIS

10 The historical ubiquity of surveillance 163

TONI WELLER

11 The archipelago of global surveillance – without States – in the Western world 180

SÉBASTIEN-YVES LAURENT