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| Author | Brendan McQuade |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Mass surveillance in the United States; fusion centers |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
Publication date | August 6, 2019 |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 978-0-520-29975-7 |
Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision is a 2019 book by Brendan McQuade about mass surveillance in the United States and specifically fusion centers. Published through the University of California Press, Pacifying the Homeland took McQuade six years to write. The author views fusion centers as a means to pacify the population, defined as a means to "create and maintain a flexible labor pool and a docile citizenry".
The book examines fusion centers, formed to further intelligence gathering between federal and state agencies, local police departments, private companies and professional associations, not as points of counterterrorism or as failures as an organization, but instead as rejigging of state-forms, defined as "institutional condensation[s] of social relations". The book received mostly positive reviews, with one reviewer comparing it to an ice-cold shower for those accustomed to intelligence gathering in everyday life. It won two book awards.