Digital surveillance in post-coronavirus China: A feminist view on the price we pay
Digital surveillance in post-coronavirus China: A feminist view on the price we pay
In this piece, I look at the question — are we worth saving and if so at what cost? — through a Foucault-inspired feminist lens on surveillance. I examine a case that illustrates how digital surveillance, despite being perceived as a successful development in China's response to COVID-19, reinforces the country's gender-biased discourses on contagious disease and sexuality. In doing so, I want to emphasize that the states of exception that governments can establish and extend are not gender-neutral. Given the feminist interest in and responsibility for life, this fact compels us to react to states of exception from a freedom-enabled gender perspective. It is to be hoped that this perspective would then help to promote socio-political practices that allowed society to challenge the normalizing male gaze induced by digital surveillance.
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Yu, Ai
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1 September 2020
Yu, Ai
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Yu, Ai
(2020)
Digital surveillance in post-coronavirus China: A feminist view on the price we pay.
Gender, Work & Organization, 27 (5), .
(doi:10.1111/gwao.12471).
Abstract
In this piece, I look at the question — are we worth saving and if so at what cost? — through a Foucault-inspired feminist lens on surveillance. I examine a case that illustrates how digital surveillance, despite being perceived as a successful development in China's response to COVID-19, reinforces the country's gender-biased discourses on contagious disease and sexuality. In doing so, I want to emphasize that the states of exception that governments can establish and extend are not gender-neutral. Given the feminist interest in and responsibility for life, this fact compels us to react to states of exception from a freedom-enabled gender perspective. It is to be hoped that this perspective would then help to promote socio-political practices that allowed society to challenge the normalizing male gaze induced by digital surveillance.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 May 2020
Published date: 1 September 2020
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