One of the most significant issues in contemporary society is the complex forms and conflicting meanings surveillance takes. This book addresses the need for contextualized social perspectives within the study of mediated surveillance. -- Publisher description.
"Through the notion of the control paradox, Di Nucci shows how the lack of direct control within representative democracies could be motivating populism and argues that a better understanding of delegation is a possible solution"
"Offers new perspectives on the history of propaganda, explores how it has evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and advances a nuanced understanding of what it means to call discourse propaganda" ...
"Whilst historians often regard the Norman Kingdom of Sicily as centralised and administratively advanced, County and Nobility in Norman Italy counters this traditional interpretation ; far from centralised and streamlined, this book reveals how the genesis and social structures…
Binary identities and the construction of privileged versus transgressive bodies -- The complexity of gender identities and the dangers of the politics of right sex -- The illegibility of trans bodies : how the mandatory reporting of gender markers on identity documents facilita…
"Japanese youth and foreign migrants face stringent institutionalised controls in Japan. This book questions the efficacy of such social controls, focusing on the interrelation of inequality (powerlessness, discriminate controls and class inequality) and deviance (largely derive…
