Surveillance and Resilience in Theory and Practice

摘要: Surveillance is often used as a tool in resilience strategies towards the threat posed by terrorist attacks and other serious crime. “Resilience” contested term with varying ambiguous meaning governmental, business social discourses, it not clear how relates to terms that characterise processes or states of being. Resilience assumed have positive connotations, but critics view great suspicion, regarding neo-liberal governmental strategy. However, we argue surveillance, introduced name greater security, may itself erode freedoms public goods such privacy, paradoxically requiring societal resilience, whether precautionary mitigation harms causes free societies. This article develops new models extends existing ones describe unfolding over time anticipation of, reaction to, adversities different kinds severity, explores both on plane abstract analysis context responses mass surveillance. The thus focuses upon surveillance special field for conceptual modelling situations, evaluating contemporary developments “surveillance societies”.