ABSTRACT
While the focus on the population and concomitant biopolitical technologies of power are crucial for the political and societal order in Palestine, this chapter will point out that modern governmentality also fundamentally relies on mechanisms of surveillance. Biopolitics and surveillance are closely interlinked in particular in the sense that both utilize what Foucault terms apparatuses of security that are involved in monitoring the condition of the population as a whole (see Chapter 3). Whereas statistics, as was argued in Chapter 4, provide the knowledge base for these apparatuses of security, surveillance makes use of this statistical knowledge in order to function. In this sense, this chapter will show that as part of modern governmentality, the exercise of surveillance as a technology of power contributes to political and societal order in Palestine. As I have highlighted in the previous chapter concerning biopolitics, the capacity for both empowerment and subjection is inherent in surveillance. It is rooted in the volatile interplay of freedom and security. Therefore, it is reasonable to explore how surveillance and security interrelate in the context of good governance.
