Dossierveillance, Collaboration, and Fear in Society

Exploring the cultural history of surveillance practices of the Securitate, Romania's secret police during its communist period, the book blends biographical details in a historical inquiry to establish the concepts of psuchegraphy, dossierveillance, and banalization of evil in the study of Securitate Archives.

Autorentext

Cristina Plamadeala is a researcher. She writes about surveillance practices in totalitarian and neo-liberal societies. She has published works on the subject of religion, culture and politics, Romanian history, and the history of communism. A philosopher and historian of Eastern European history by training, with a background in theology, her work attempts to ask historical questions through philosophical and theological lenses. In her spare time, she writes novels and divides her time between Quebec, Canada, and France.

Inhalt

Part 1: An Itinerant in the Securitate Archives

1. Three Questions
2. Doing Research in the Securitate Archives
3. Brief Historical Overview: Romania and the Other Satellite States during the Cold War

Part 2: The Reluctant Betrayal: Collaboration During Nicolae Ceau escu Regime (1965-89)

4. Defining Psuchegraphy: Antonie Pl m deal 's Novel Trei Ceasuri în Iad
   
   5. The Four Stages of Psuchegraphic Work in Securitate Manuals
   6. On Dossierveillance in Communist Romania under Ceaüescu: its tangible dimension
   7. On Dossierveillance in Communist Romania under Ceaüescu: its non-tangible dimension
   8. Post-recruitment: Between Banalization of Evil and Perpetration

Part 3: Dossierveillance Then and Now
9. On Centralized Deliberate Dossierveillance

10. Centralized Deliberate Dossierveillance and Lustration
11. A Few More Thoughts on Dossierveillance