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1. The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society

   Edited by Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Heidi Mork Lomell, Svein Hammer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   Statistics are often seen as simple, straightforward, and objective descriptions of society. However, what we choose to count, what we choose not to count, who does the counting, and the categories and values we choose to apply when counting, matter. This volume addresses the ways in which...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Technologies of InSecurity

   The Surveillance of Everyday Life

   Edited by Katja Franko Aas, Helene Oppen Gundhus, Heidi Mork Lomell

   Technologies of InSecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life. Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security...

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish