Surveillance and Identity
Surveillance and Identity

Author: Dr David Barnard-Wills

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-01-28

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1409495051

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Surveillance and Identity analyses the discourse of surveillance in the contemporary United Kingdom, drawing upon public language from central government, governmental agencies, activist movements, and from finance and banking. Examining the logics of these discourses and revealing the manner in which they construct problems of governance in the light of the insecurity of identity, this book shows how identity is fundamentally linked to surveillance, as governmental discourses privilege surveillance as a response to social problems. In drawing links between new technologies and national surveillance projects or concerns surrounding phenomena such as identity fraud, Surveillance and Identity presents a new understanding of identity - the model of 'surveillance identity' - demonstrating that this is often applied to individuals by powerful organisations at the same time as the concept is being actively contested in public language. The first comprehensive study of the discursive politics of surveillance in the UK, this book makes significant contributions to surveillance theory, governmentality theory, and to political and social identity theories. As such, it will be of interest to social scientists of all kinds working on questions of public discourse and political communication, identity, surveillance and the relationship between the individual and the state.

The Byrne Identity
The Byrne Identity

Author: Lee Byrne

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781784614614

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A no-holds-barred autobiography from Welsh rugby legend Lee Byrne; from his childhood in a tough neighborhood, to on-field heroics, to off-field antics. With color plates.

Scripted Murder
Scripted Murder

Author: E.R. Fallon

Publisher: Next Chapter

Published: 2022-01-03

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13:

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1932. After being left at the altar, free-spirited Ginny Weltermint boards a train and heads back home to Hollywood. But when she stumbles across a body in one of the carriages, she unwittingly becomes involved in a murder mystery. Stopping in a small village to investigate the crime, Ginny soon clashes with the surly, old-school detective who comes aboard to solve the murder. With the clock ticking, it's clear that there will soon be another victim. But can the two put aside their differences and join forces to find the perpetrator and solve the mystery?

Ethnic Identity and Inequalities in Britain
Ethnic Identity and Inequalities in Britain

Author: Jivraj, Stephen

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2015-05-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1447321820

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As debates around ethnic identity and inequality gain both political and media interest, this important book is the first to offer in-depth analysis from the last three UK population censuses focusing on the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequalities in contemporary Britain. While providing a comprehensive overview, it also clarifies concepts associated with greater ethnic diversity, increased segregation, exclusive growth of minority groups through immigration and a national identity crisis. The contributions, all from experts in the field based at or affiliated to the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, highlight persistent inequalities in access to housing, employment, education and good health faced by some ethnic groups. The book will be a valuable resource for policy makers and researchers in national and local government, community groups, academics, students, and will act as an authoritative text to cite in reports, dissertations and funding applications.

Global Challenges for Identity Policies
Global Challenges for Identity Policies

Author: E. Whitley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-18

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0230245374

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The goals of this book are to provide a comprehensive review of identity policies as they are being implemented in various countries around the world, to consider the key arenas where identity policies are developed and to provide intellectual coherence for making sense of these various activities.

Byrne Identity
Byrne Identity

Author: Lee Byrne

Publisher: Y Lolfa

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1784615145

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A childhood on a tough estate in Bridgend. Teenage years on building sites across Europe. Not the typical route to rugby stardom, but one that took Lee Byrne to the very top of world rugby, earning him 46 caps for Wales as one of the nation's best-ever full backs. This book charts his meteoric rise from Bridgend Athletic to the Scarlets and the Ospreys, winning a Grand Slam with Wales and selection for the Lions along the way. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Lee Byrne reveals all about his gambling habit, how he's come to terms with dyslexia, and how he struggled with depression after his enforced retirement due to injury. He lifts the lid on his refusal to play under Rob Howley, gives us a glimpse into rugby drinking culture and players' and coaches' hilarious off-field antics, and opens up about how the death of his good friend Jerry Collins affected him.

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature

Author: Alex Tankard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 3319714465

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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the period 1821-1912, in which modern ideas about disease, disability, and eugenics emerged to challenge Romanticism and sentimentality, Invalid Lives examines representations of nineteenth-century consumptives as disabled people. Letters, self-help books, eugenic propaganda, and press interviews with consumptive artists suggest that people with tuberculosis were disabled as much by oppressive social structures and cultural stereotypes as by the illness itself. Invalid Lives asks whether disruptive consumptive characters in Wuthering Heights, Jude the Obscure, The Idiot, and Beatrice Harraden’s 1893 New Woman novel Ships That Pass in the Night represented critical, politicised models of disabled identity (and disabled masculinity) decades before the modern disability movement.