Surveillance and the Global Political Economy

Hewson, Martin

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“…At this time, the term was linked to very different theoretical traditions. Early mentioning of the concept can be found in contributions about European governance (Jachtenfuchs, 1995), critical surveillance studies (Hewson, 1994) or the Foucauldian analysis of a child welfare regime (Ashenden, 1996). Earlier studies on 'reflexive law' (Teubner & Willke, 1984) also draw on Luhmann's systems theory.…”

Section: The Emergence Of Reflexive Governancementioning

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Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Feindt

Weiland

2018

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Elaborated in publications on transition management, sustainability governance and deliberative environmental governance, 'reflexive governance' addresses concerns about social-ecological vulnerabilities, flawed conceptualisations of human-nature relations fragmented governance regimes and conditions for a sustainability transition. Key barriers to reflexive government include unavoidable politics; the influence of broader discursive systems that shape actors' strategic interests; and structural and deliberate limitations to the range of admitted epistemological understandings, normative perspectives and material practices. Against this background, the contributions to the special issue provide novel conceptual linkages between reflexive governance and boundary objects, intercultural dialogue, conflict management heuristics, discourse linguistics, theories of the policy cycle and reflexive law, network and learning theories, and Lasswell's 'developmental constructs'. Based on the contributions, we identify five inherent conceptual tensions of reflexive governance: between the openness of horizontal learning processes and the desired direction towards sustainable development; between reflexive governance as a normative or procedural concept; between expected learning orientations and other, strategic orientations; between governance as a precondition for reflexivity and reflexive learning as a precondition for reorganized governance structures; and between reflexivity as an open-ended, evolutionary process and the need to strategically defend the space for reflexivity against powerful groups with an interest in the status quo.

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Section: The Emergence Of Reflexive Governancementioning

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Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Feindt

Weiland

2018

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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“…Governments have also exploited digitizatio n for its data-collection and analysis capabilities in order to re ne statistical databases and records-keeping systems. These have been used not only to ne-tune social policy and programmes, but also to augment social surveillance and control in such areas as currency control, tax collection, social assistance, and law enforcement (Hewson, 1994;Gill, 1995;Lyon, 1994).…”

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Digital Restructuring: Gender, Class and Citizenship in the Information Society in Canada

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Longford

2000

Citizenship Studies

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“…Information is malleable and free from its action-context in radically new ways. However, alongside the miraculous 'technical' advancements, surveillance still needs interpretative systems to add value and effectively manipulate information (Hewson 1994). These 'expert systems' (market-research agencies, specialized information brokerages) are strategic complexes, institutionally interwoven with the technology, and are the 'intelligence' behind any surveillance operation.This is where the 'value' is added, assumptions about consumer behaviour made, the ideology of consumption propagated.…”

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A PLAGUE ON THE PANOPTICON: Surveillance and power in the global information economy

Green¹

1999

Information, Communication & Society

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Surveillance and the Global Political Economy

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Digital Restructuring: Gender, Class and Citizenship in the Information Society in Canada

A PLAGUE ON THE PANOPTICON: Surveillance and power in the global information economy

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