 | Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s Subjects: Geography; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Human Geography; History; Public Administration & Management; Sociology & Social Policy; Cultural Geography; Political Geography; Population Geography; Modern History 1750-1945; Public Policy; Political Sociology; Through a detailed account of the West German census controversies of the 1980s, this book offers a robust and geographical sense of what effective 'resistance' and 'empowerment' might mean in an age when the intensification of 'surveillance society' appears to render us ever more passive and incapable of controlling our own registration. Matthew G. Hannah is Professor at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University, UK |
