Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime
With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to ref...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2016
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