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Surveillance and Moral Community: Anthropologies of Monitoring in Germany and Britain

Descripción del proyecto

Investigar la moralidad de la vigilancia

Las tecnologías de vigilancia se han convertido en una parte significativa de la vida diaria. Aunque su prevalencia ha transformado muchos aspectos de nuestro modo de vida, siguen existiendo cuestiones en cuando a las implicaciones morales de dichas tecnologías. El proyecto SAMCOM, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende mejorar nuestra comprensión de la vigilancia investigando cómo se adapta a las comunidades morales y cómo la usan las personas para bienes y servicios. También explicará cómo repercute la vigilancia en el bienestar de las personas a escala individual y nacional, además de determinar cómo se puede considerar moral o inmoral. El objetivo es mejorar la comprensión del público sobre qué tipos de vigilancia pueden ayudar o, incluso, perjudicar a la vida cotidiana.

Objetivo

Surveillance—the mediated monitoring of human behaviour for some intended purpose—has become part of the structure of European life. As ubiquitous monitoring technologies transform every new relationship that they mediate, there is grave concern that the social gains of past centuries will be lost, as states and large corporations use these technologies to expand and entrench their own power. Scholars of surveillance have been following these developments since the 1970s, but recently have faced the paradox that most surveillance now takes place with the active collaboration of the surveilled. Moreover, the enthusiasm for self-monitoring popularized through smart technologies has been met by many surveillance scholars with bewilderment. Why would people choose to enter relationships objectively deemed to be coercive?

This project takes a new approach to how we understand surveillance. I embark on the first sustained inquiry into the association between surveillance and moral community, between practices of ‘watching over’ and the presence of a group of people who share a commitment to certain goods. By ethnographically investigating the role that surveillance technologies play in realizing four different types of good—care, health, safety and citizenship—within four different communities—the family, the interest group, the circle of intimates, and the nation—this research explores how surveillance proliferates not as a lever in power relations, but by being harnessed to forms of human welfare.

The gains of this project are substantial. To surveillance studies I import insights from anthropology, offering a comparative and embedded approach that situates surveillance as a social relationship. I also initiate a major conversation about surveillance in anthropology. Finally I develop the concepts of ‘moral’ and ‘immoral’ monitoring, achieving greater public clarity on those forms of surveillance that support collective welfare, and those that threaten to harm it.

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ERC-STG - Starting Grant

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(se abrirá en una nueva ventana) ERC-2020-STG

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Institución de acogida

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 476 127,50
Dirección
STRAND
WC2R 2LS London
Reino Unido
Región
London Inner London — West Westminster
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Coste total
€ 1 476 127,50

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