Building a Panopticon Through Nodal Governance: Mass Surveillance and Plural Policing in China’s COVID-19 Lockdown

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At one time monitoring over 900 million people, China’s health code system is arguably the most controversial invention of pandemic. This study explores how emerged and its implications for security governance in urban communities. By analysing 9,533 social media posts published during three key weeks, revealed that early pandemic responses China were heavily shaped by private nodes, such as estate management companies, guards homeowners. Homeowners’ demands extra clashed with migrants’ tenants’ mobility. The was presented a ‘solution’ to these conflicts. findings this highlight limitations consumer-driven pluralisation policing. Such offered limited opportunities democratisation. Instead, radical pursuit ‘club goods’ consumer-denizens reinforced existing inequalities. Entrenched inequalities tempted marginalised groups accept ‘indiscriminate’ surveillance, which paved way neo-panopticon. also warns against alliance state nodes big-tech companies. Through collaboration, powerful players can replace political dynamics community data-driven modulation, thus destroying foundation nodal governance.

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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['2202-7998', '2202-8005']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2733