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In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, “modernization through technology” was the major political motto used to develop and improve the country’s peripheral and backward condition. This study reflects on one of the resulting, specific aspects of this trend—the implementation of public video surveillance. The in-depth ethnography provides evidence of how the political construction of security and surveillance as a strategic program actually conceals intricate institutional relationships between polit
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- Author
- Catarina Frois
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Inc.
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782380245
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Political Science, Anthropology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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