Elusive Subjects

In this book, Mary McThomas examines how individuals can claim their own subjecthood while still evading the identity-forming powers of state surveillance.

Auteur

Mary McThomas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She studies theories of citizenship and migration, feminist theory, and the right to privacy.

Contenu

1. Introduction

2. Surveillance, State Power and Policing the "Other"

3. Colonial Objects and Systems of Control

4. Coming Out of the Shadows: Public Anxiety and the Confessional

5. The Battle for Sanctuary

6. From Surveilled Object to Rights-bearing Subject