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Population Registration, Social Planning, and the Discourse on Privacy Protection in West Germany
Ist Teil von
The Journal of modern history, 2015-06, Vol.87 (2), p.316-356
Ort / Verlag
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Frohman argues that across the mid-twentieth century the German state was engaged in a vast legibility project to map its interior terrain and the lives of its population. The core administrative mechanism on which this project depended was a comprehensive, increasingly integrated, and ultimately computerized population information, identification, and control system. He also argues that the consolidation of this system gave rise to a new form or domain of social politics, the politics of personal information; to new discourses on privacy, which became the primary means of theorizing the expansion of state population surveillance; and to a corresponding social movement, which sought to contest the expansion and intensification of population surveillance in the name of both individual autonomy and the collective needs of a democratic society.