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dc.contributor.authorStoddart, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-02T12:30:03Z
dc.date.available2022-02-02T12:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-28
dc.identifier277369131
dc.identifiera4a9f747-46d6-480d-8ecd-e2dbbe076ff0
dc.identifier85124180076
dc.identifier000749605300001
dc.identifier.citationStoddart , E 2022 , ' Reimagining the white surveillance gaze : a practical theological proposal for repentant and solidaristic engagement ' , Practical Theology , vol. 15 , no. 1-2 , pp. 94-106 . https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2021.2023947en
dc.identifier.issn1756-073X
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1261-6510/work/107718026
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24789
dc.description.abstractThis surveillance gaze is White in the sense that while it may, on occasion, intentionally target people who are non-white for special scrutiny, this gaze comprises operations and experiences of surveillance that assume Whiteness as normative and unremarkable. It raises barriers which are of no, or minimal hindrance, to white people. This article draws on examples and theories of racial bias within Artificial Intelligence technologies to identify dataism (a naïve trust in data) to be a significant dimension of the problematic gaze. Using Stoddart’s cruciform Christian theology of surveillance and the preferential optic for the (digitally) poor, in conjunction with Trozzo’s theological critique of data and Pattison’s theological notion of enfacement, proposals are made for dismantling the White surveillance gaze. These include acknowledging biases in White theology and imagining a redeemed White gaze as a paradigm of repentant and solidaristic surveillance. The article concludes with recommendations for enhanced practice by Christians who are developers, users, and subjects of surveillance technologies.
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dc.format.extent1342441
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPractical Theologyen
dc.subjectSurveillanceen
dc.subjectWhitenessen
dc.subjectPreferential optionen
dc.subjectDataismen
dc.subjectWhite theologyen
dc.subjectBV Practical Theologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBVen
dc.titleReimagining the white surveillance gaze : a practical theological proposal for repentant and solidaristic engagementen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1756073X.2021.2023947
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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