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.
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