GEOG 30.04 Surveillance Infrastructures

Used for everything from opening our iPhones to border control, surveillance technologies saturate our world today. How do we make sense of this extensive “watching” of our lives? Approaching surveillance as a form of infrastructure to emphasize both its material qualities and lived effects, the course explores how state and non-state practices such as biometrics and facial recognition operate as relations of power that structure and differentially distribute control over racialized and gendered bodies.

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