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Joan Copjec accuses orthodox film theory of misrepresenting the Lacanian gaze by assimilating it to Foucauldian panopticon (Copjec 1994: 18–19). Although Copjec is correct that orthodox film theory misrepresents the Lacanian gaze, she, in turn, misrepr…

Tendencies of Inner Surveillance in Democratic India: Challenges of Establishing Native Ethnographer’s Identity Among Indian Muslims

Tabassum “Ruhi” Khan Published: 2010-03-05 Categories: English

The paper analyzes how the native ethnographer’s position within his/her community becomes problematized during fieldwork conditions defined by fear of state surveillance forces. It focuses on the way state’s vigilance activities create new barriers fo…

Reading the Surface: Body Language and Surveillance

Mark Andrejevic Published: 2010-03-05 Categories: English

This article explores the role played by body language in recent examples of popular culture and political news coverage as a means of highlighting the potentially deceptive haracter of speech and promising to bypass it altogether. It situates the prom…

Culture Unbound Vol. 2 Editorial

Johan Fornä:s, Martin Fredriksson, Jenny Johannisson Published: 2010-03-05 Categories: English

No abstract available.

Surveillance: The “Digital Trail of Breadcrumbs”

Toby Miller Published: 2010-03-05 Categories: English

No abstract available.

Silhouettes of War: Technologies of U.S. Soldiering and Surveillance

Jessica J. Behm Published: 2010-03-05 Categories: English

This paper forwards a theory of silhouetting in relation to technological augmentation in U.S. Military uniforms and suggests that the increasing utilization of metamaterials, nanotechnology, and surveillance technologies operates under a rhetoric of i…

The Tampa “Smart CCTV” Experiment

Kelly Gates Published: 2010-03-05 Categories: English

In June 2001, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida called Ybor City became the first urban area in the United States to be fitted with a “Smart CCTV” system. Visionics Corporation began a project with the Tampa Police Department to incorporate the company’…

Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.14/15 No.1

HRČAK - sec Published: 2010-01-28 Categories: Croatian · English · Multilingual

Published: March 2004.

Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.14/15 No.1

HRČAK - sec Published: 2010-01-28 Categories: Croatian · English · Multilingual

Published: March 2004.

A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics: Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic Development, and the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis

Recent imbs_socdyn_sdeas items Published: 2010-01-07 Categories: English

The article presents results of spectral analysis that has detected the presence of Kondratieff waves (their period equals approximately 52–53 years) in the world GDP dynamics for the 1870–2007 period. To estimate the statistical significance of the de…

A Framework to Structure Agent-Based Modeling Data for Social-Ecological Systems

Recent imbs_socdyn_sdeas items Published: 2010-01-07 Categories: English

Agent-based models (ABMs), perhaps used along with other methods, are increasingly being applied to address problems involving social-ecological systems (SES). However, systematic and standardized techniques for organizing data requirements and collect…