Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-11-2013

Publication Title

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

Volume

2

Issue

2

First page number:

100

Last page number:

112

Abstract

There is a growing body of academic literature that scrutinises the effects of technologies deployed to surveil the physical bodies of citizens. This paper considers the role of affect; that is, the visceral and emotive forces underpinning conscious forms of knowing that can drive one’s thoughts, feelings and movements. Drawing from research on two distinctly different groups of surveilled subjects – paroled sex offenders and elite athletes – it examines the effects of biosurveillance in their lives and how their reflections reveal unique insight into how subjectivity, citizenship, harm and deviance become constructed in intimate and public ways vis-à-vis technologies of bodily regulation. Specifically, we argue, their narratives reveal cultural conditions of biosurveillance, particularly how risk becomes embodied and internalised in subjective ways.

Keywords

Surveillance; Affect; Sex offenders; Parolees; Athletes; Doping

Disciplines

Criminology and Criminal Justice | Legal Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences

File Format

pdf

File Size

264 KB

Language

English

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