Surveillance and the dossier : record keeping, vulnerability, and reputational politics /

"Surveillance and the Dossier delves into how dossiers, both paper-based and digital, have been used by governments both historically and in contemporary times to inflict various forms of violence upon the public, including psychological, physical, and reputational. This volume establishes doss...

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Other Authors: Plamadeala, Cristina (Editor), Topak, Özgün E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2026]
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Table of Contents:
  • Change and Constancy: Individual and Group-Based Dossiers and Their Evolution in German Police Intelligence / Christoph Felix Butz
  • China's Household Register: From a "Family Dossier" to a "Surveillance Platform" / Marcella Siqueira Cassiano
  • "Let's Pull Out Their Files and See": The File and the Reconfiguration of Zimbabwe's Post-Coup Surveillance Architecture / Allen Munoriyarwa
  • The Dossier on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: Reputation, Denunciation, and the Surveillance of Soviet Migrants in Australia / Ebony Nilsson
  • Classify to Kill: Unit 731 and the Japanese Dossier of Settler Colonial Surveillance in Northeast China / Midori Ogasawara
  • Surveillance, Intelligence, and Policing in South America: Risks and Dangers of Automated Profile Building through OSINTs / Alcides Eduardo dos Reis Peron
  • Securitate Files, Dossiers, and Fear: Dossierveillance in Communist Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu (1965-89) / Cristina Plamadeala
  • Our Files Are Never Closed: The Use of Private Sector Surveillance Dossiers in the Enforcement of Government Policy in Second World War Canada 1943-45 / Scott Thompson
  • Cataloguing Enemies: Soviet Proscription Lists, Card Catalogues, and Kompromat / Olga Velikanova.