Facing the Child
Surveillance, Care, and the Policing of Violent Digital Images
$180.95
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2027
Summary
Facing the Child investigates the technocratic expertise in the policing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Mitali Thakor argues that CSAM has come to be framed as primarily a digital problem, to be resolved digitally, thereby unleashing a new form of corporatized policing helmed by global technology companies.
Ambitious in scope, this multi-sited global ethnography draws on 4 years of original fieldwork and interviews with technology companies in the US, the United Nations in Ban…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262055673 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262055678 |
| Author: | Mitali Thakor |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“Facing the Child is a courageous, intellectually stunning book. Mitali Thakor reveals the hidden infrastructures and moral contradictions of digital child protection with remarkable ethnographic depth and analytical precision. This is a field-shaping piece of scholarship at the intersections of tech studies, public policy, care, and child safety.”
—Mary L. Gray, MacArthur Fellow; coauthor of Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
“There is perhaps no better justification—or alibi—for building powerful systems of surveillance and policing than preventing and punishing the sexual abuse of children. In this path-breaking multi-sited ethnography of the global anti-trafficking network, Mitali Thakor upends conventional ways of understanding the problem of child sexual exploitation and the strategies devised to combat it.”
—Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego; author of Targeted: Corporations and the Police Surveillance Economy
Mitali Thakor
Mitali Thakor is Assistant Professor in the College of Science and Technology Studies at Wesleyan University, with affiliations in Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. In addition, she is the Co-Director of Black Box Labs.
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