Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Zukerfeld, Mariano
Cafassi, Emilio
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1998-2014
Idioma
spa
Extent
311 p.
Derechos
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Formato
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Identificador
Cobertura
1001160
Buenos Aires (province)
1998-2014
Abstract
This thesis aims to enquire into a paradigmatic knowledge-power device in our biopolitical present time: governmental video surveillance in public spaces (GSPS), through the discourses that are interwoven with it. It attempts to outline a possible cartography of its composition, which means both an investigation into certain historic conditions of possibility of its emergence -genealogical gesture- as well as an analysis of the ways in which its depth is structured as an object of discourse and meaning -archaeological gesture-, considering certain discursive series and, most particularly, taking into account the connections with political marketing and with the duality sameness/otherness.
Taking this empirical reference as a starting point, at least three groups of questions are to be addressed.
First, we are chiefly concerned with the extension of the phenomenon of GSPS, with its radio of propagation. Such concern is made up of questions about its size, its degree of diffusion, and its quantum.
Second: which have been the historical conditions of possibility for its emergence? In other words, how was it that this device -which appears as compact and naturalized- became set up?
Third, we pose a series of questions which are to inquire more deeply into our object: what is it said about GSPS and what is it shown? What layers of meaning and argumentation are structured by its modes of thematization? More specifically, what type of relationship with sameness/otherness do these discourses establish? What are the links between the discourses on the GSPS device and political marketing?
To achieve the proposed objectives, we shall proceed, in the first place, by gathering secondary data and analyzing relevant theoretical literature, allowing us to situate the object within its conditions of possibility: this is, to identify the urgencies it has come to attend to. In the second place, we analyze a series of discursive records, for which we pay attention to the form by which GSPS is named and shown, both quantitatively and qualitatively. We examine and analyze primary sources (obtained from 211 semi structured questionnaires administered to residents of the studied areas and in depth interviews with key informants) as well as secondary sources (analysis of documentary sources obtained from three newspapers during 1998-2013, from the official websites of the 24 municipalities that constitute the studied areas, and from corporate press and websites belonging to the firms in the GSPS business).
Taking this empirical reference as a starting point, at least three groups of questions are to be addressed.
First, we are chiefly concerned with the extension of the phenomenon of GSPS, with its radio of propagation. Such concern is made up of questions about its size, its degree of diffusion, and its quantum.
Second: which have been the historical conditions of possibility for its emergence? In other words, how was it that this device -which appears as compact and naturalized- became set up?
Third, we pose a series of questions which are to inquire more deeply into our object: what is it said about GSPS and what is it shown? What layers of meaning and argumentation are structured by its modes of thematization? More specifically, what type of relationship with sameness/otherness do these discourses establish? What are the links between the discourses on the GSPS device and political marketing?
To achieve the proposed objectives, we shall proceed, in the first place, by gathering secondary data and analyzing relevant theoretical literature, allowing us to situate the object within its conditions of possibility: this is, to identify the urgencies it has come to attend to. In the second place, we analyze a series of discursive records, for which we pay attention to the form by which GSPS is named and shown, both quantitatively and qualitatively. We examine and analyze primary sources (obtained from 211 semi structured questionnaires administered to residents of the studied areas and in depth interviews with key informants) as well as secondary sources (analysis of documentary sources obtained from three newspapers during 1998-2013, from the official websites of the 24 municipalities that constitute the studied areas, and from corporate press and websites belonging to the firms in the GSPS business).
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales