Die African Studies Review der African Studies Asscociation hat gerade eine Ausgabe zu Surveillance in Africa veröffentlicht.
Volume 59 – Issue 2 – September 2016
Angesichts der Dominanz westlicher Sichtweisen und westlicher Forschungsfoci, ist so ein Unterfangen mehr als überfällig. Ich habe mal den Inhalt aufgeführt.
- Introduction to ASR Forum on Surveillance in Africa: Politics, Histories, Techniques by Kevin P. Donovan, Philippe M. Frowd and Aaron K. Martin
- Surveillance in Niger: Gendarmes and the Problem of “Seeing Things by Mirco Göpfert
- “Mundane Sights” of Power: The History of Social Monitoring and Its Subversion in Rwanda by Andrea Purdeková
- “Money Is Your Government”: Refugees, Mobility, and Unstable Documents in Kenya’s Operation Usalama Watch by Sophia Balakian
- “We Are Not a Failed State, We Make the Best Passports”: South Sudan and Biometric Modernity by Ferenc David Markó
- Tightly Packed: Disciplinary Power, the UNODC, and the Container Control Programme in Dakar by Adam Sandor
- “Surveillance of the Surveillers”: Regulation of the Private Security Industry in South Africa and Kenya by Tessa Diphoorn
With Book Reviews of:
- Keith Breckenridge’s Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present by Frederick Cooper
- Jane Duncan’s The Rise of the Securocrats: The Case of South Africa by Rita Abrahamsen
- Jessica Piombo’s The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development? by Stephen Harmon