Tug of War (Record no. 9359)
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| fixed length control field | 02375nam a2200217Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780773550476 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 355.033 |
| Item number | WIL-T |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Wills, Jocelyn |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tug of War |
| Sub Title | : Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Montreal & Kingston |
| Name of publisher | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xv, 500p |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Carleton library series; 242 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | includes notes, bibliography and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Selling Earth observation satellites on their abilities to predict and limit adverse environmental change, politicians, business leaders, the media, and technology enthusiasts have spent sixty years arguing that space exploration can create a more peaceful, prosperous world. Capitalist states have also socialized the risk and privatized the profits of the commercial space industry by convincing taxpayers to fund surveillance technologies as necessary components of sovereignty, freedom, and democracy. Jocelyn Wills’s Tug of War reminds us that colonizing the cosmos has not only accelerated the arms race but also encouraged government contractors to compete for the military and commercial spoils of surveillance. Although Canadians prefer to celebrate their role as purveyors of peaceful space applications, Canada has played a pivotal part in the expansion of neoliberal policies and surveillance networks that now encircle the globe, primarily as a political ally of the United States and component supplier for its military-industrial complex. Tracing the forty-five-year history of Canada’s largest space company – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) – through the lens of surveillance studies and a trove of oral history transcripts, government documents, trade journals, and other sources, Wills places capitalism’s imperial ambitions squarely at the centre of Canada-US relations and the privatization of the Canadian political economy. Tug of War confronts the mythic lure of technological progress and the ways in which those who profess little interest in war rationalize their leap into military contracting by avoiding the moral and political implications of their work. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Security, International |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Space security |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Defence contracts |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Electronic surveillance |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Capitalism |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2018-03-26 | OP | 2018-02-28 | 355.033 WIL-T | 49891 | 2019-04-18 | Books |