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- Title
The Evolution of Panoptic Surveillance and Its Impact on Political Discrimination.
- Authors
ATEŞ, Ahmet
- Abstract
This article aims to explore how the expansion of social media and information technologies changed the nature of surveillance and expanded the political discrimination against women and people of color by utilizing the concept of the Panopticon. First, it surveys and documents the evolution of the Panopticon from an architecture plan to participatory omniopticon. More precisely, starting from Jeremy Bentham's blueprints of the Panopticon, this article analyzes how the expansion of CCTVs and social media led to the evolution of the Panopticon and surveillance. Then, this article discusses how increasing political discrimination against women and people of color can be analyzed by Feminist International Relations Theory and post-colonialism. Last, it offers a road map to counter political discrimination due to the expansion of surveillance. This article argues that there is a two-step road map to encounter increasing political discrimination against women and people of color. The first step is raising awareness. To understand and then encounter these challenges, feminist and postcolonial scholars should actively engage race and gender issues by problematizing and deconstructing the virtual world's nature and the effects of the omniopticon that promotes these challenges. After raising the awareness, the second step is resisting. Unlike in the previous versions of the Panopticon, now a regular citizen can stand for fighting the challenges of the women and the people of color and can monitor masculinity or racism and can actively promote equality by using social media platforms.
- Subjects
BENTHAM, Jeremy, 1748-1832; INTERNATIONAL relations theory; WOMEN of color; ROAD maps; PEOPLE of color; WAGE increases; MASCULINITY; SEX discrimination against women
- Publication
Igdir University Journal of Social Sciences / Iğdır Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2021, Issue 28, p202
- ISSN
2147-5717
- Publication type
Article