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Surveillance, risk and preemption on the Australian border

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posted on 2023-06-09, 09:06 authored by Dean WilsonDean Wilson, Leanne Weber
In this paper we will map and analyze Australian border surveillance technologies. In doing so, we wish to interrogate the extent to which these surveillance practices are constitutive of new regimes of regulation and control. Surveillance technologies, we argue, are integral to strategies of risk profiling, social sorting and “punitive pre-emption.” The Australian nation-state thus mirrors broader global patterns in the government of mobility, whereby mobile bodies are increasingly sorted into kinetic elites and kinetic underclasses. Surveillance technologies and practices positioned within a frame of security and control diminish the spaces that human rights and social justice might occupy. It is therefore imperative that critical scholars examine the moral implications of risk and identify ways in which spaces for such significant concerns might be forged.

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  • Published

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Journal

Surveillance & Society

ISSN

1477-7487

Publisher

Surveillance Studies Network

Issue

2

Volume

15

Page range

124-141

Department affiliated with

  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Crime Research Centre Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-11-29

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-11-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-11-29

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