Cultures of Transparency

<p>This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency. </p><p>How can society deal with increasing and often diverging demands and expectations of transparency? What role can different political and civil society actors play in processes of producing or preventing transparency? Where are the limits of transparency and how are these boundaries negotiated? What is the relationship of transparency to processes of social change as well as systems of social surveillance and control? Engaging with transparency as an interrelated product of law politics economics and culture this interdisciplinary volume explores the ambiguities and contradictions as well as the social and political dilemmas that the age of transparency has unleashed.</p><p>As such it will appeal to researchers across the social sciences and humanities with interests in politics history sociology civil society citizenship public policy criminology and law.</p>