Surveillance Studies: A Reader
Surveillance is everywhere: in workplaces monitoring the performance of employees, social media sites tracking clicks and uploads, financial institutions logging transactions, advertisers amassing fine-grained data on customers, and security agencies siphoning up everyone's telecommunications activities. Surveillance practices-although often hidden-have come to define the way modern institutions operate. Because of the growing awareness of the central role of surveillance in shaping power relations and knowledge across social and cultural contexts, scholars from many different academic disciplines have been drawn to "surveillance studies," which in recent years has solidified as a major field of study.

Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood's Surveillance Studies is a broad-ranging reader that provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field. In fifteen sections, the book features selections from key historical and theoretical texts, samples of the best empirical research done on surveillance, introductions to debates about privacy and power, and cutting-edge treatments of art, film, and literature. While the disciplinary perspectives and foci of scholars in surveillance studies may be diverse, there is coherence and agreement about core concepts, ideas, and texts. This reader outlines these core dimensions and highlights various differences and tensions. In addition to a thorough introduction that maps the development of the field, the volume offers helpful editorial remarks for each section and brief prologues that frame the included excerpts.

Including 78 classic and contemporary texts, Surveillance Studies is the definitive introduction to this vibrant and growing field and an essential resource for scholars.
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Surveillance Studies: A Reader
Surveillance is everywhere: in workplaces monitoring the performance of employees, social media sites tracking clicks and uploads, financial institutions logging transactions, advertisers amassing fine-grained data on customers, and security agencies siphoning up everyone's telecommunications activities. Surveillance practices-although often hidden-have come to define the way modern institutions operate. Because of the growing awareness of the central role of surveillance in shaping power relations and knowledge across social and cultural contexts, scholars from many different academic disciplines have been drawn to "surveillance studies," which in recent years has solidified as a major field of study.

Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood's Surveillance Studies is a broad-ranging reader that provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field. In fifteen sections, the book features selections from key historical and theoretical texts, samples of the best empirical research done on surveillance, introductions to debates about privacy and power, and cutting-edge treatments of art, film, and literature. While the disciplinary perspectives and foci of scholars in surveillance studies may be diverse, there is coherence and agreement about core concepts, ideas, and texts. This reader outlines these core dimensions and highlights various differences and tensions. In addition to a thorough introduction that maps the development of the field, the volume offers helpful editorial remarks for each section and brief prologues that frame the included excerpts.

Including 78 classic and contemporary texts, Surveillance Studies is the definitive introduction to this vibrant and growing field and an essential resource for scholars.
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Surveillance is everywhere: in workplaces monitoring the performance of employees, social media sites tracking clicks and uploads, financial institutions logging transactions, advertisers amassing fine-grained data on customers, and security agencies siphoning up everyone's telecommunications activities. Surveillance practices-although often hidden-have come to define the way modern institutions operate. Because of the growing awareness of the central role of surveillance in shaping power relations and knowledge across social and cultural contexts, scholars from many different academic disciplines have been drawn to "surveillance studies," which in recent years has solidified as a major field of study.

Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood's Surveillance Studies is a broad-ranging reader that provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field. In fifteen sections, the book features selections from key historical and theoretical texts, samples of the best empirical research done on surveillance, introductions to debates about privacy and power, and cutting-edge treatments of art, film, and literature. While the disciplinary perspectives and foci of scholars in surveillance studies may be diverse, there is coherence and agreement about core concepts, ideas, and texts. This reader outlines these core dimensions and highlights various differences and tensions. In addition to a thorough introduction that maps the development of the field, the volume offers helpful editorial remarks for each section and brief prologues that frame the included excerpts.

Including 78 classic and contemporary texts, Surveillance Studies is the definitive introduction to this vibrant and growing field and an essential resource for scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190297824
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/07/2018
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 456
Product dimensions: 9.80(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Torin Monahan is Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society. His most recent books include SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society and Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity.

David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies and Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Queens University in Ontario. He is also co-founder and Managing Editor of Surveillance & Society and co-founder and trustee of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN).

Table of Contents

List of Charts and Figures
Introduction: Surveillance Studies as a Transdisciplinary Endeavor

Section 1: Openings and Definitions
1. Private Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
James B. Rule
2. The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
3. Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life
William G. Staples
4. Surveillance Studies: An Overview
David Lyon
5. What's New About the "New Surveillance?" Classifying for Change and Continuity
Gary T. Marx

Section 2: Society and Subjectivity
6. The Panopticon
Jeremy Bentham
7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
8. Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
9. The Surveillant Assemblage
Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson
10. The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault's "Panopticon" Revisited
Thomas Mathiesen
11. The Rise of Surveillance Medicine
David Armstrong
12. Zooland: The Institution of Captivity
Irus Braverman

Section 3: State and Authority
13. Foundations of Natural Right
Johann Gottleib Fichte
14. The Nation-State and Violence
Anthony Giddens
15. Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
16. The Technologies of Total Domination
Maria Los
17. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Anna Funder
18. The State Goes Home: Local Hypervigilance of Children and the Global Retreat from Social Reproduction
Cindi Katz

Section 4: Identity and Identification
19. Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
Valentin Groebner
20. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State
John C. Torpey
21. The Body and the Archive
Allan Sekula
22. DNA Identification and Surveillance Creep
Dorothy Nelkin and Lori Andrews
23. When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
Shoshana Amielle Magnet

Section 5: Borders and Mobilities
24. Biometric Borders: Governing Mobilities in the War on Terror
Louise Amoore
25. Passports, Mobility, and Security: How Smart Can the Border Be?
Mark B. Salter
26. Digitizing Surveillance: Categorization, Space, Inequality
Stephen Graham and David Wood
27. "Crimmigrant" Bodies and Bona Fide Travelers: Surveillance, Citizenship and Global Governance
Katja Franko Aas
28. Security, Exception, Ban and Surveillance
Didier Bigo

Section 6: Intelligence and Security
29. The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
James Bamford
30. Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
31. Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance and Political Control Towards the Palestinian Minority
Ahmad H. Sa'di
32. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Glenn Greenwald

Section 7: Crime and Policing
33. CCTV and the Social Structuring of Surveillance
Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong
34. The Surveillance Web: The Rise of Visual Surveillance in an English City
Mike McCahill
35. Spectacular Security: Megaevents and the Security Complex
Philip Boyle and Kevin D. Haggerty
36. The Regeneration Games: Purity and Security in the Olympic City
Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffe, Gary Armstrong, and Dick Hobbs
37. "The Gaze without Eyes": Video-surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space
Hille Koseka
38. Policing's New Visibility
Andrew John Goldsmith
39. Schools under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education
Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres

Section 8: Privacy and Autonomy
40. Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy
Priscilla M. Regan
41. Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness
Jean-François Blanchette and Deborah G. Johnson
42. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Helen Fay Nissenbaum
43. Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice
Julie E. Cohen
44. Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy
John Gilliom
45. In Defense of Privacy: The Concept and the Regime
Colin J. Bennett

Section 9: Ubiquitous Surveillance
46. Information Technology and Dataveillance
Roger Clarke
47. Immanent Domain: Pervasive Computing and the Public Realm
Dana Cuff
48. Sentient Cities: Ambient Intelligence and the Politics of Urban Space
Mike Crang and Stephen Graham
49. Surveillance in the Big Data Era
Mark Andrejevic

Section 10: Work and Organisation
50. "Someone to Watch Over Me": Surveillance, Discipline and the Just-in-time Labour
Process
Graham Sewell and Barry Wilkinson
51. Workplace Surveillance: An Overview
Kirstie Ball
52. Behind the Screens: Examining Constructions of Deviance and Informal Practices among CCTV Control Room Operators in the UK
Gavin J.D. Smith
53. Web 2.0, Prosumption and Surveillance
Christian Fuchs

Section 11: Political Economy
54. On the "Pre-history of the Panoptic Sort": Mobility in Market Research
Adam Arvidsson
55. Brandscapes of Control? Surveillance, Marketing and the Co-construction of Subjectivity and Space in Neo-liberal Capitalism
David Murakami Wood and Kirstie Ball
56. Towards a "New" Political Anatomy of Financial Surveillance
Anthony Amicelle
57. The Valorization of Surveillance: Towards a Political Economy of Facebook
Nicole S. Cohen
58. Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization
Shoshana Zuboff

Section 12: Participation and Social Media
59. The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-
Disclosure
Mark Andrejevic
60. Webcams, TV Shows and Mobile Phones: Empowering Exhibitionism
Hille Koskela
61. Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance
Anders Albrechtslund
62. Kids R Us: Online Social Networking and the Potential for Empowerment
Priscilla Regan and Valerie Steeves
63. The Public Domain: Social Surveillance in Everyday Life
Alice E. Marwick

Section 13: Resistance and Opposition
64. The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
Colin J. Bennett
65. Cop Watching in the Downtown Eastside: Exploring the Use of (Counter)Surveillance as a Tool of Resistance
Laura Huey, Kevin Walby, and Aaron Doyle
66. Vernacular Resistance to Data Collection and Analysis: A Political Theory of Obfuscation
Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum
67. Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments
Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, and Barry Wellman
68. The Right to Hide? Anti-Surveillance Camouflage and the Aestheticization of Resistance
Torin Monahan

Section 14: Marginality and Difference
69. Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative
Disadvantage
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
70. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Jasbir K. Puar
71. Surveillance Studies and Violence Against Women
Corinne Mason and Shoshana Magnet
72. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Simone Browne

Section 15: Art and Culture
73. Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space
John E. McGrath
74. The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
David Rosen and Aaron Santesso
75. Artveillance: At the Crossroads of Art and Surveillance
Andrea Mubi Brighenti
76. Since Nineteen Eighty Four: Representations of Surveillance in Literary Fiction
Mike Nellis
77. Surveillance Cinema
Catherine Zimmer
78. Gaming the Quantified Self
Jennifer R. Whitson

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