Shifting Positionalities (Paperback)

Paperback. The local-level and international contributions to Shifting Positionalities encompass particular common themes through in-depth social science research, in an effort to understand the meanings of the reformulation of state discourses and practices in this, post-9/11, era. Current conjunctions between sexual, racial and ethnic identitiesand the surveillance practices of those identitiescalls for a thorough examination of the multiple and usually unexpected meaning-making practices adapted by individuals. Far from being predictable, the latter speak to the possibility of individuals and communities utilizing techniques of actively resistingas opposed to passively embracingthe policing of their daily lives. Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International Geo-Politics of Surveillance and Policing addresses surveillance and policing as practices and sites that speak to the various ways in which bio-power, displacement and resistance converge to constitute particular subjectivities across borders. The local-level and international contributions to Shifting Positionalities encompass particular common themes through in-depth social science research, in an effort to understand the meanings of the reformulation of state discourses and practices in this, post-9/11, era. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…