Theorizing Surveillance (Hardcover)

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 global south). Civil liberties, democratic participation and privacy are some of the issues that are raised by these developments. adequate understanding of how, how well and whether or not surveillance works. This book explores the theoretical questions in a way that is grounded in and attuned to empirical realities.

General

Imprint:	Willan Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	May 2011
Editors:	David Lyon
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-84392-192-9
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:	1-84392-192-8
Barcode:	9781843921929

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