Browsing Department of Sociology Graduate Theses by Author "Lyon, David"
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Becoming "Subjects" of the Visa Regime: How the Ban-opticon of the Canadian Visa System Affects Chinese Applicants
Luo, Chen (2009-10-20)This thesis examines the visa mechanism deployed by governments on state borders. I take the Canadian temporary residence visa system experienced by Chinese applicants as my working example. Though the visa system is ... -
Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
Ogasawara, MidoriThis dissertation investigates the emergence and transformation of national identification (ID) systems in modern Japan. I focus on colonial techniques of the ID systems in Northeast China under Japanese occupation in ... -
The Canadian No Fly List: A Sociological Analysis of its Supposed Distinctiveness
Rozdeba, Andrea (2009-01-15)Since the events of 9-11, aviation security has become a mounting concern for both the American and Canadian government. Because of the alleged “threats to security,” the Canadian government has followed in American ... -
The Debate Surrounding the Use of Biometric Registration by the UNHCR on Refugees
Aloh, IngridOver the past two decades, there has been a disturbing rise in the refugee population with over 65 million people displaced from their homes as of 2019. This alarming increase has been due to terrorist activities, civil ... -
ID Troubles: The National Identification Systems in Japan and the (mis) Construction of the Subject
Ogasawara, Midori (2008-05-30)Modern Japan established three kinds of national identification (ID) systems over its population: Koseki, Alien Registration, and Juki-net. The Koseki system is a patriarchal family registration of all citizens. It began ... -
Loyal Subjects?: Consumer surveillance in the personal information economy
Pridmore, Jason Hart (2008-04-25)This research examines loyalty marketing as an empirical case study of consumer surveillance. Focusing on the Canadian context, the research investigates the relationship between the personal information economy and loyalty ... -
Mutual Augmentation of Surveillance Practices on Social Media
Trottier, Daniel (2011-01-04)Social media services like Facebook mark the continued domestication of surveillance technology. Facebook has been remarkably successful at establishing a presence within a variety of social settings, including the ... -
Navigating Canadian Drone Space: A Sociological Analysis of the Stakeholders, Narratives, and Policy Shaping Canadian Unmanned Systems
Bracken-Roche, CiaraIn this dissertation, I undertake an in-depth examination of the stakeholder networks and narratives that are driving and shaping drone technologies and corresponding policy within Canada. It examines how and why some ... -
Picturing Public Health Surveillance: Tracing the Material Dimensions of Information in Ontario’s Public Health System
French, Martin (2009-02-02)The aim of this dissertation is to explore public health surveillance from a surveillance studies perspective. The public health system in Ontario, Canada, provides an ideal setting for such exploration, especially because ... -
The Price of Loyalty: A Gendered Analysis of Consumer Surveillance
Cheston, Amelia (2013-06-27)Consumer surveillance, seen in the social sorting capabilities of loyalty marketing, is gendered. Using Canadian examples, gender is added to the existing literature on social sorting in relation to class (Burrows and Gane ... -
Radio Frequency Identification as Surveillance: A Critical Analysis of Myth and Risk in an Emerging Technology
Dawson, Danielle (2011-11-02)Radiofrequency identification (RIFD) is a significant player in the spread of computation out of the box and into the environment and is becoming a key component in what some have titled the “digital era”. In its capacity ... -
The Reproduction of Social Disadvantage in South Africa: mapping consumer credit scoring onto the ANC’s policy of ‘social transformation’
Singh, Sachil (2016-11-01)South Africa has the continent’s most sophisticated banking and credit systems with approximately 19 million credit-active consumers. Their credit profiles are based on automated algorithmic assessments that generate data ... -
Risk Governance and Border Security Policy Post 9/11: Beyond Borders in the Security Era
Sebben, Christine (2011-10-14)This paper utilizes a critical (political) discourse analysis to examine security dialogue as revealed through policy; in order to facilitate this task, the following publically available political documents will be analyzed: ... -
Social Media and Law Enforcement: A Study on the Adoption and Use of Social Media Monitoring in Canada
Masoodi, J.MPolice agencies globally now have access to several technologies that monitor social media, exploiting its data and content for investigative purposes. Such practices fit into larger discussions of policing shifting towards ... -
Surveillance Studies and the Surveilled Subject
Saulnier, Alana (2016-05-19)Surveillance studies has been somewhat inattentive to the perspective of the surveilled subject. It is the functioning of the surveillance apparatus, not the relatively inconsequential subject, which has tended to frame ... -
Surveillance, Subjectivity and Resistance at the Frontiers of Europe: A Materialist Analysis of the Greece-Turkey Borders
Topak, Ozgun E. (2014-11-25)The Greece-Turkey borders have become one of the main points of undocumented entry into the European Union since 2009. The borders operate through complex elements: historical processes that shape their structure, ideologies ...