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Theorizing Surveillance (Paperback)
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Theorizing Surveillance (Paperback)
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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
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