Sorting identity

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Abstract

This chapter deploys a social model of the multiple and variable self to consider how identity is constructed within contemporary cultures of surveillance. It attends, therefore, to biographical identity rather than to metaphysical questions. The concern is not with establishing the necessary and sufficient conditions for being a person as opposed to a non-person. Rather, it will consider identity construction as an action of individuals in, and in relation to, society, and we will consider this issue particularly with regard to surveillance technologies as socio-technological systems.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCambridge handbook of surveillance and race
EditorsMichael Kwet
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Chapter2
Pages19-32
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781108241304
ISBN (Print)9781108416498
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Apr 2023

Publication series

NameCambridge law handbooks

Keywords

  • Surveillance
  • Race
  • Law
  • Algorithms
  • Social justice

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