Theorizing Surveillance (Paperback)

This book is about explaining surveillance processes and practices in contemporary society. Surveillance studies is a relatively new multi-disciplinary enterprise that aims to understand who watches who, how the watched participate in and sometimes question their surveillance, why surveillance occurs, and with what effects. This book brings together some of the world's leading surveillance scholars to discuss the "why" question. The field has been dominated, since the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault, by the idea of the panopticon and this book explores why this metaphor has been central to discussions of surveillance, what is fruitful in the panoptic approach, and what other possible approaches can throw better light on the phenomena in question. Since the advent of networked computer databases, and especially since 9/11, questions of surveillance have come increasingly to the forefront of democratic, political, and policy debates in the global north (and to an extent in the glo

General

Imprint:	Willan Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	August 2006
Editors:	David Lyon
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	382
ISBN-13:	978-1-84392-191-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Security services > Surveillance services
LSN:	1-84392-191-X
Barcode:	9781843921912

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