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Theorizing surveillance in the UK crime control field
Drawing upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, this paper argues that the demise of the Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) and the rise of neo-liberal economic policies in the UK has placed new surveillance technologies at the centre of a reconfigured “crime control field” (Garland, 2001) designed to control the problem populations created by neo-liberal economic policies (Wacquant, 2009a). The paper also suggests that field theory could be usefully deployed in future research to explore how wider global trends or social forces, such as neo-liberalism or bio-power, are refracted through the crime control field in different national jurisdictions. We conclude by showing how this approach provides a bridge between society-wide analysis and micro-sociology by exploring how the operation of new surveillance technologies is mediated by the “habitus” of surveillance agents working in the crime control field and contested by surveillance subjects
La movilización como comunicación: Una contribución latinoamericana al estudio de los movimientos sociales
Many scholars have noted the lack of interdisciplinary dialogue and research between the areas of
social movements studies and that of media and
communications. While social movement studies fail
to fully analyse media practices and communicative
processes in relation to mobilization, in media and
communication the social and political aspects of
mobilization are seldom taken into account when
analysing communication in social movements. This
apparent lack of dialogue is presented in the paper
as a consequence of north-centred theorization in
the fields of social movement studies and media and
communication, which is addressed by spelling out
the contribution of Latin American communication
scholarship and a view of mobilization as anchored in
communication.Muchos académicos han observado la ausencia
de diálogo interdisciplinario entre los estudios
de los movimientos sociales y de los medios y la
comunicación. Mientras que los estudios de los
movimientos sociales no analizan de manera integral
las prácticas mediáticas y los procesos comunicacionales en relación con la movilización, los estudios
de medios y comunicación raras veces toman en
cuenta los aspectos socio-políticos cuando analizan
la comunicación en los movimientos sociales. Este
artículo plantea esa aparente falta de diálogo como una
consecuencia de una teorización eurocéntrica, explica
en detalle la contribución de los estudios latinoamericanos de la comunicación, y propone una visión de la
movilización centrada en la comunicación
Still minding the gap? Reflecting on transitions between concepts of information in varied domains
This conceptual paper, a contribution to the tenth anniversary special issue of information, gives a cross-disciplinary review of general and unified theories of information. A selective literature review is used to update a 2013 article on bridging the gaps between conceptions of information in different domains, including material from the physical and biological sciences, from the humanities and social sciences including library and information science, and from philosophy. A variety of approaches and theories are reviewed, including those of Brenner, Brier, Burgin and Wu, Capurro, Cárdenas-García and Ireland, Hidalgo, Hofkirchner, Kolchinsky and Wolpert, Floridi, Mingers and Standing, Popper, and Stonier. The gaps between disciplinary views of information remain, although there has been progress, and increasing interest, in bridging them. The solution is likely to be either a general theory of sufficient flexibility to cope with multiple meanings of information, or multiple and distinct theories for different domains, but with a complementary nature, and ideally boundary spanning concepts
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