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Managing Dangerous Populations: Colonial Legacies of Security and Surveillance
Author(s) -
Berda Yael
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/socf.12042
Subject(s) - colonialism , modernity , population , sociology , population control , political economy , political science , criminology , law , demography , research methodology , family planning
We tend to associate practices of population surveillance with Western modernity and the intensification of security routines with the last decade defined by the “Global War on Terror.” I suggest, however, that proliferation of methods to monitor and control populations are legacies of the practices that were developed in the colonies to manage civilian populations. Here, I outline those institutional colonial legacies.