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Interacting Forms of Expertise in Security Governance: The Example of CCTV Surveillance at Geneva International Airport

Klauser, F.

Authors

F. Klauser



Abstract

The paper investigates the multiple public-private exchanges and cooperation involved in the installation and development of CCTV surveillance at Geneva International Airport. Emphasis is placed on the interacting forms of authority and expertise of five parties: the user(s), owner and supplier of the camera system, as well as the technical managers of the airport and the Swiss regulatory bodies in airport security. While placing the issues of airport surveillance in the particular context of a specific range of projects and transformations relating to the developments of CCTV at Geneva Airport, the paper not only provides important insights into the micro-politics of surveillance at Geneva Airport, but aims to re-institute these as part of a broader 'problematic': the mediating role of expertise and the growing functional fragmentation of authority in contemporary security governance. On this basis, the paper also exemplifies the growing mutual interdependences between security and business interests in the ever growing 'surveillant assemblage' in contemporary security governance.

Citation

Klauser, F. (2009). Interacting Forms of Expertise in Security Governance: The Example of CCTV Surveillance at Geneva International Airport. British Journal of Sociology, 60(2), 279-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01231.x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jun 1, 2009
Deposit Date May 24, 2010
Journal British Journal of Sociology
Print ISSN 0007-1315
Electronic ISSN 1468-4446
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 60
Issue 2
Pages 279-297
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01231.x
Keywords Surveillance, Airport, CCTV, Expertise, Security governance.