The Politics of Personal Information

Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany

The Politics of Personal Information
Larry Frohman
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 454pg
4 Dec 2020 UK
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9781789209464
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In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set of distinctly postindustrial social conflicts centered on the use of personal information as a means of social governance in the welfare state. Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis, this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.
"This book unites disparate episodes in West German history into a careful and illuminating exploration of Germans' attitudes toward the privacy of their own personal data, the changing implications for those attitudes as technological capacity expands, and the very conception of governmentality as the state inescapably can see more and more into the intimate lives of its citizens. " Kenneth Ledford, Case Western Reserve University"Frohman has done a truly masterful job of capturing the debates around privacy and surveillance, demonstrating with the help of the West German case how these concepts have evolved alongside information technologies. For those looking for a path forward, a way out of the panopticon or Big Brother' s grasp, the book' s most vital contribution is its use of privacy not only to theorize the information state but to actively contest the new forms of power that state pursues. " Karrin Hanshew, Michigan State University
Larry Frohman is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York. He is the author of Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I (Cambridge University Press, 2008), along with a series of articles on the welfare state.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789209464
Published: 4 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 454

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