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作者

Masamichi Inoue

来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.49,Issue2,P.257–285

语言

英文

关键字

campus police, surveillance, sousveillance, new governance

作者单位

1Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

摘要

Utilizing historical and ethnographic data, this article explicates a thesis that involves a paradox—campus police feel vulnerable as the “surveyed” precisely because they gain power as the “surveyor.” Toward this end, first, I identify a dramatic change in the status and function of campus police from watchmen to law enforcement professionals in the 1960s-1970s as a key historical context in which this paradox emerged. Then, I ethnographically explore forms this paradox has taken at the level of consciousness-behavior of campus officers. Attention is paid to how digital technologies of the twenty-first century transform campus policing, a process that redefines the relationship between the state and civil society and normalizes “watching” as a basic mechanism of new governance. I consider political and theoretical implications of new governance and the role writing can play in ethnographic studies of police to elucidate it.