Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies

by Kirstie Ball (Editor), Kevin Haggerty (Editor), David Lyon (Editor)

Overview

Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data, and localized in the daily minutiae of social life. This innovative Handbook explores the empirical, theoretical and ethical issues around surveillance and its use in daily life.

With a collection of over forty essays from the leading names in surveillance studies, the Handbook takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question issues of:

• surveillance and population control
• policing, intelligence and war
• production and consumption
• new media
• security
• identification
• regulation and resistance.

The Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies is an international, accessible, definitive and comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing multi-disciplinary field of surveillance studies. The Handbook’s direct, authoritative style will appeal to a wide range of scholars and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415588836
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/27/2012
Series:	Routledge International Handbooks
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kirstie Ball is Reader in Surveillance and Organization at The Open University Business School. Her research focuses on surveillance and global capital, and the experience of surveillance. She co-founded the journal the Surveillance & Society and is a director of the Surveillance Studies Network.

Kevin D. Haggerty is editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology and book review editor of the international journal Surveillance & Society. He is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Alberta and a member of the executive team for the New Transparency Major Collaborative Research Initiative.

David Lyon holds a Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface: ‘Your Papers Please’: Personal and Professional Encounters with Surveillance. Introduction: Introducing Surveillance Studies Part 1: Understanding Surveillance Part 1 Introduction 1.1. Theory 1: After Foucault 1.1.a. Panopticon – Discipline – Control 1.1.b. Simulation and Post-Panopticism 1.1.c. Surveillance As Biopower 1.2. Theory 2: Difference, Politics, Privacy 1.2.a. ‘You Shouldn’t Wear That Body’ – The Problematic of Surveillance and Gender 1.2.b. The Information State: A Historical Perspective on Surveillance 1.2.c. Needs For Surveillance and the Movement to Protect Privacy 1.2.d. Race and Surveillance 1.3. Cultures of Surveillance 1.3.a. Performing Surveillance 1.3.b. Ubiquitous Surveillance 1.3.c. Surveillance in Literature, Film and Television 1.3.d. Surveillance Work(ers) Part 2: Surveillance as Sorting Part 2 Introduction 2.1. Surveillance Techniques 2.1.a. Statistical Surveillance: Remote Sensing in the Digital Age 2.1.b. Advertising’s New Surveillance Ecosystem 2.1.c. New Technologies, Security and Surveillance 2.2. Social Divisions of Surveillance 2.2.a. Colonialism and Surveillance 2.2.b. Identity, Surveillance and Modernity: Sorting Out Who’s Who 2.2.c. The Surveillance-Industrial Complex 2.2.d. The Body as Data in the Age of Information Part 3: Surveillance Contexts Part 3 Introduction 3.1. Population Control 3.1.a. Borders, Identification, and Surveillance: New Regimes of Border Control 3.1.b. Urban Spaces of Surveillance 3.1.c. Seeing Population: Census and Surveillance By Numbers 3.1.d. Surveillance and Non-Humans 3.1.e. The Rise of the Surveillance School 3.2. Crime and Policing 3.2.a. Surveillance, Crime and the Police 3.2.b. Crime, Surveillance and the Media 3.2.c. The Success of Failure: Accounting For the Global Growth of CCTV 3.2.d. Surveillance and Urban Violence In Latin America: Mega Cities, Social Division, Security and Surveillance 3.3. Security, Intelligence, War 3.3.a. Military Surveillance 3.3.b. Security, Surveillance and Democracy 3.3.c. Surveillance and Terrorism 3.3.d. The Globalization of Homeland Security 3.4. Production, Consumption, Administration 3.4.a. Organization, Employees and Surveillance 3.4.b. Public Administration as Surveillance 3.4.c. Consumer Surveillance: Context, Perspectives and Concerns in the Personal Information Economy 3.5. Digital Spaces of Surveillance 3.5.a. Globalization and Surveillance 3.5.b. Surveillance and Participation on the Web 2.0 3.5.c. Hide and Seek: Surveillance of Young People on the Internet Part 4: Limiting Surveillance Part IV Introduction 4.1. Ethics, Law and Policy 4.1.a. A Surveillance of Care – Evaluating Surveillance Ethically 4.1.b. Regulating Surveillance: The Importance of Principles 4.1.c. Privacy, Identity and Anonymity 4.2. Regulation and Resistance 4.2.a. Regulating Surveillance Technologies: Institutional Arrangements 4.2.b. Everyday Resistance 4.2.c. Privacy Advocates, Privacy Advocacy and the Surveillance Society 4.2.d. The Politics of Surveillance: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Ethics

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This ground-breaking book contains over forty essays by some of the leading commentators on the burgeoning academic field of Surveillance Studies, covering most if not all of the critical challenges of surveillance and population control; policing, intelligence and war; the new social networking media; the emerging capacities of geo-location, identity recognition and real time tracking, as well as the thorny questions of future regulation and resistance, over a generous volume of some 437 pages.
Whilst there are other excellent Surveillance Studies readers, such as the work edited by Hier and Greenberg (2007), the formidable profile, diversity, breadth and scope of the Routledge collection, make it quite simply, definitive. Here we have authors such as James Rule, Gary Marx, David Lyon and Clive Norris—who essentially founded the field—mixed with new authors who take the insights of these pathfinders into new domains. The Handbook could not be more timely, as the pace of technological innovation in surveillance transcends many of the existing legal and cultural limits and understandings of its role and function." Steve Wright, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Editorial Reviews

"This ground-breaking book contains over forty essays by some of the leading commentators on the burgeoning academic field of Surveillance Studies, covering most if not all of the critical challenges of surveillance and population control; policing, intelligence and war; the new social networking media; the emerging capacities of geo-location, identity recognition and real time tracking, as well as the thorny questions of future regulation and resistance, over a generous volume of some 437 pages.
Whilst there are other excellent Surveillance Studies readers, such as the work edited by Hier and Greenberg (2007), the formidable profile, diversity, breadth and scope of the Routledge collection, make it quite simply, definitive. Here we have authors such as James Rule, Gary Marx, David Lyon and Clive Norris—who essentially founded the field—mixed with new authors who take the insights of these pathfinders into new domains. The Handbook could not be more timely, as the pace of technological innovation in surveillance transcends many of the existing legal and cultural limits and understandings of its role and function." Steve Wright, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

From the Publisher