the Other

Surveillance

Monahan talks about the fear of the "other" (Bauman & Lyon, p. 102). The other is not necessarily some person outside of the community; it can be the "neighbor, passer-by, loiterer, stalker: ultimately every stranger" (p. 104).

The Nation

According to Anderson (2006), the nation and national imagination have a fixed boundary that sees the world as inside and outside; these boundaries make us feel closer (good or bad) to those inside. Anderson states, "Nothing assures of of this sociological solidity more than the succession of plurals. For they conjure up a social space full of comparable prisons, none in itself of any unique importance, but all representative (in they simultaneous, separate existence) of the oppressiveness of this colony" (p. 30). Many understand nationalism as having "its roots in fear and hatred of the Other, and its affinities with racism" (p. 141). Further, "...in everything 'natural' there is always something unchosen. In this way, naiton-ness is assimilated to skin-color, gender, parentage and birth-era - all those things one can not help. And in these 'natural ties' one senses what one might call 'the beauty of gemeinschaft'. To put it another way, precisely because such ties are not chose, they have about them a halo of disinterestedness" (p. 143).

Maps

According to Anderson (2006), the map set up boundaries (p. 174) and created a "'piece' [that] could be wholly detached from its geographic context" (p. 175). It also establishes neighbors (p. 175).

Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.

Bauman, Z. & Lyon, D. (2013). Liquid surveillance. Cambridge: Polity Press.