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Surveillance in Public Rituals

Security Meta-ritual and the 2005 U.S. Presidential Inauguration

University of Pennsylvania

This article uses the second inauguration of President George W. Bush in January 2005 as a case study to show that surveillance procedures in state-sponsored public rituals themselves have a ritual form. This security meta-ritual is a practice of separation of insiders from outsiders through which the state security apparatus transforms a potentially dangerous everyday public life into a new social reality. In this newly created space of public interaction under maximum control, a safe space is created within which public ritual can take place without interruption.

Key Words: ritual • surveillance • security • secret • public • framing

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