Vidas sob suspeita: a busca por segurança na cidade videovigiada

Abstract

Analytically observing the surveillance processes that mark the contemporary security society, this research maps and analyzes video surveillance practices and their interface with the contemporary city, based on empirical elements of the model implemented at the Federal University of Bahia. To support the analysis of the empirical object, we start from the Foucauldian concept of “Security Device” and articulate it with studies by more contemporary theorists who realized the need to develop more up-to-date and specific diagnoses about the overlaps between surveillance and security. From the empirical point of view, the research is operationalized focusing on a glocal relationship, that is, articulating the empirical findings related to the UFBA campus and confronting them with video surveillance practices arising from other metropolitan realities. In this movement, we return to Michel Foucault's concept of device to bring to light the way in which the surveillance camera system operates, highlighting the discourses, contracts, technological applications, the "individuals" who operate surveillance and the effects related to the surveillance implanted system.