Can I be reflexive for a moment?
It's interesting to me that a lot of the traffic on this list relates
to ongoing changes to legal frameworks around privacy and surveillance
in Britain, like the recent contributions from Derrick and Robert.
While I have a clear and critical personal my response to New Labour's
authoritarian approach to law and order, I find it quite hard to talk
about these changes within the theoretical apparatus I have in my head
around surveillance.
I'm not sure if this is simply because my own research is on popular
media forms rather than legal debates. Perhaps it is because critical
perspectives around these changes articulated in the popular press
etc. so often seem to be framed in a libertarian/individualist language
that I have theoretical problems with.
The post-Foucauldian work which seems so productive in understanding
contemporary governmental strategies around self-management,
self-surveillance and so on seems to leave me with little to say about
Straw etc. beyond the same old same old notions of discipline and
deviance.
Am I missing something important and new about New Labour's
governmental strategies?
Nicole
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