Surveillance is everywhere. Be it in workplaces monitoring the performance of employees, social media sites tracking clicks and uploads, financial institutions logging transactions, advertisers amassing fine-grained data on customers, or security agencies siphoning up everyone's
telecommunications activities, surveillance continually finds new causes, new effects, and new reasons to endure. Because of growing awareness of the central role of surveillance in shaping power relations and knowledge across social and cultural contexts, scholars from many different academic
disciplines have gravitated to "surveillance studies" and contributed to its solidification as a field.
Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood's Surveillance Studies is a broad-ranging reader that provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field. Across fifteen sections, the book
offers original selections of key historical and theoretical texts, samples of the best empirical research done on surveillance, introductions to debates about privacy and power, and cutting-edge treatments of art, film, and literature. While the disciplinary perspectives and foci of scholars in
surveillance studies may be diverse, there is coherence and agreement about core concepts, ideas, and texts. The Reader maps these core dimensions and highlights various differences and tensions. In addition to a thorough introduction, which maps the development of the field, this volume offers
helpful editorial introductions for each section and brief capsules to frame the included excerpts.
With over 70 classic and contemporary texts, Surveillance Studies is the definitive introduction to this vibrant and growing field and an essential resource for scholars.
List of Charts and Figures
Introduction: Surveillance Studies as a Transdisciplinary Endeavor
Section 1: Openings and Definitions
1. Private Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age, James B. Rule
2. The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal
Information, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
3. Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life, William G. Staples
4. Surveillance Studies: An Overview, David Lyon
5. What's New About the "New Surveillance?" Classifying for Change and Continuity, Gary T. Marx
Section 2:
Society and Subjectivity
6. The Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham
7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault
8. Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze
9. The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson
10. The Viewer Society:
Michel Foucault's "Panopticon" Revisited, Thomas Mathiesen
11. The Rise of Surveillance Medicine, David Armstrong
12. Zooland: The Institution of Captivity, Irus Braverman
Section 3: State and Authority
13. Foundations of Natural Right, Johann Gottleib Fichte
14. The Nation-State
and Violence, Anthony Giddens
15. Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
16. The Technologies of Total Domination, Maria Los
17. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, Anna Funder
18. The State Goes Home: Local
Hypervigilance of Children and the Global Retreat from Social Reproduction, Cindi Katz
Section 4: Identity and Identification
19. Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe, Valentin Groebner
20. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance,
Citizenship, and the State, John C. Torpey
21. The Body and the Archive, Allan Sekula
22. DNA Identification and Surveillance Creep, Dorothy Nelkin and Lori Andrews
23. When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity, Shoshana Amielle Magnet
Section 5: Borders and
Mobilities
24. Biometric Borders: Governing Mobilities in the War on Terror, Louise Amoore
25. Passports, Mobility, and Security: How Smart Can the Border Be?, Mark B. Salter
26. Digitizing Surveillance: Categorization, Space, Inequality, Stephen Graham and David Wood
27.
"Crimmigrant" Bodies and Bona Fide Travelers: Surveillance, Citizenship and Global Governance, Katja Franko Aas
28. Security, Exception, Ban and Surveillance, Didier Bigo
Section 6: Intelligence and Security
29. The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most
Secret Intelligence Organization, James Bamford
30. Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, Alfred W. McCoy
31. Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance and Political Control
Towards the Palestinian Minority, Ahmad H. Sa'di
32. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, Glenn Greenwald
Section 7: Crime and Policing
33. CCTV and the Social Structuring of Surveillance, Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong
34. The Surveillance
Web: The Rise of Visual Surveillance in an English City, Mike McCahill
35. Spectacular Security: Mega?events and the Security Complex, Philip Boyle and Kevin D. Haggerty
36. The Regeneration Games: Purity and Security in the Olympic City, Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffe, Gary Armstrong, and Dick
Hobbs
37. "The Gaze without Eyes": Video-surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space, Hille Koseka
38. Policing's New Visibility, Andrew John Goldsmith
39. Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education, Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres
Section 8:
Privacy and Autonomy
40. Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy, Priscilla M. Regan
41. Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness, Jean-François Blanchette and Deborah G. Johnson
42. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy,
and the Integrity of Social Life, Helen Fay Nissenbaum
43. Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice, Julie E. Cohen
44. Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy, John Gilliom
45. In Defense of Privacy: The Concept and
the Regime, Colin J. Bennett
Section 9: Ubiquitous Surveillance
46. Information Technology and Dataveillance, Roger Clarke
47. Immanent Domain: Pervasive Computing and the Public Realm, Dana Cuff
48. Sentient Cities: Ambient Intelligence and the Politics of Urban Space, Mike Crang
and Stephen Graham
49. Surveillance in the Big Data Era, Mark Andrejevic
Section 10: Work and Organisation
50. "Someone to Watch Over Me": Surveillance, Discipline and the Just-in-time Labour Process, Graham Sewell and Barry Wilkinson
51. Workplace Surveillance: An Overview, Kirstie
Ball
52. Behind the Screens: Examining Constructions of Deviance and Informal Practices among CCTV Control Room Operators in the UK, Gavin J.D. Smith
53. Web 2.0, Prosumption and Surveillance, Christian Fuchs
Section 11: Political Economy
54. On the "Pre-history of the Panoptic
Sort": Mobility in Market Research, Adam Arvidsson
55. Brandscapes of Control? Surveillance, Marketing and the Co-construction of Subjectivity and Space in Neo-liberal Capitalism, David Murakami Wood and Kirstie Ball
56. Towards a "New" Political Anatomy of Financial Surveillance, Anthony
Amicelle
57. The Valorization of Surveillance: Towards a Political Economy of Facebook, Nicole S. Cohen
58. Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization, Shoshana Zuboff
Section 12: Participation and Social Media
59. The Work of Being Watched:
Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure, Mark Andrejevic
60. Webcams, TV Shows and Mobile Phones: Empowering Exhibitionism, Hille Koskela
61. Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance, Anders Albrechtslund
62. Kids R Us: Online Social Networking and the
Potential for Empowerment, Priscilla Regan and Valerie Steeves
63. The Public Domain: Social Surveillance in Everyday Life, Alice E. Marwick
Section 13: Resistance and Opposition
64. The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance, Colin J. Bennett
65. Cop Watching in the
Downtown Eastside: Exploring the Use of (Counter)Surveillance as a Tool of Resistance, Laura Huey, Kevin Walby, and Aaron Doyle
66. Vernacular Resistance to Data Collection and Analysis: A Political Theory of Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum
67. Sousveillance: Inventing and
Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments, Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, and Barry Wellman
68. The Right to Hide? Anti-Surveillance Camouflage and the Aestheticization of Resistance, Torin Monahan
Section 14: Marginality and Difference
69. Coming to
Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
70. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Jasbir K. Puar
71. Surveillance Studies and Violence Against Women, Corinne Mason and Shoshana Magnet
72. Dark Matters: On the
Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne
Section 15: Art and Culture
73. Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space, John E. McGrath
74. The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood, David Rosen and Aaron Santesso
75. Artveillance: At
the Crossroads of Art and Surveillance, Andrea Mubi Brighenti
76. Since Nineteen Eighty Four: Representations of Surveillance in Literary Fiction, Mike Nellis
77. Surveillance Cinema, Catherine Zimmer
78. Gaming the Quantified Self, Jennifer R. Whitson
Notes
Index
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Torin Monahan is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and author of SuperVision: An Introduction tothe Surveillance Society, Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity, and Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education.
David Murakami Wood is
Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies and Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Queens University in Ontario. He is also co-founder and Managing Editor of Surveillance & Society and co-founder and trustee of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN).
