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Today's 'surveillance Society' Emerged From A Complex Of Military And Corporate Priorities That Were Nourished Through The Active And 'cold' Wars That Marked The Twentieth Century. Two Massive Configurations Of Power - State And Corporate - Have Become The Dominant Players. Mass Targeted Surveillance Deep Within Corporate, Governmental And Social Structures Is Now Both Normal And Legitimate. The Surveillance-industrial Complex Examines The Intersections Of Capital And The Neo-liberal State In Promoting The Emergence And Growth Of The Surveillance Society. The Chapters In This Volume, Written By Internationally-known Surveillance Scholars From A Number Of Disciplines, Trace The Connections Between The Massive Multinational Conglomerates That Manufacture, Distribute And Promote Technologies Of 'surveillance', And The Institutions Of Social Control And Civil Society.--publisher's Website. Introduction: The Surveillance-industrial Complex: Towards A Political Economy Of Surveillance? / By Kirstie Ball And Laureen Snider -- International Networks And Global Circuits Of Surveillance -- The New Military Urbanism / By Stephen Graham -- Promoting Global Identification: Corporations, Igos And Id Card Systems / By David Lyon And Özgün E. Topak -- Pandemic Governance: Using Event-based Surveillance To Manage Emerging Infectious Diseases / By Adam Warren, Morag Bell And Lucy Budd -- The Saic-siemens Super-panopticon In The Athens 2004 Olympics As A Case Of Mcveillance: The Surveillance Industrial Complex's Unscrupulous Global Business / By Minas Samatas -- Insecurity As An Engineering Problem: The Technosecurity Network / By Stéphane Leman-langlois -- Surveillance Capacity, Industrial Infrastructures And Resource Distribution -- Critical Examination Of The Role Of Private Actors In The Fight Against Money Laundering: The Case Of The Uk Retail Banking Industry / By Ana Isabel Canhoto -- Collaborative Surveillance: Configuring Contemporary Marketing Practice / By Jason Pridmore -- The Great Unwatched And The Lightly Touched: Surveillance And Stock Market Fraud / By Laureen Snider And Adam Molnar -- Ground Level Circulations -- The Imagined City: Power, Mystification And Synoptic Surveillance / By Roy Coleman -- From Accountability Policy To Surveillance Practices In Higher Education / By Ben Brucato -- Surveillance And Subjectivity: Everyday Experiences Of Surveillance Practices / By David Harper, Ian Tucker And Darren Ellis -- Cctv In Barcelona: The Political Economy Of Surveillance In The (wannabe) Global City / By Gemma Galdon Clavell. Edited By Kirstie Ball And Laureen Snider. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.