Theorizing Surveillance

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David Lyon
Routledge, 1 de ago. de 2006 - 360 páginas
This book is about explaining surveillance processes and practises in contemporary society. Surveillance studies is a relatively new multi-disciplinary enterprise the 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 panopticon and this book explores why this metaphor has been central in discussions of surveillance, what is fruitful in the panooptic approach and what are the 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. But little progress can be made in responding to these issues without an 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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Notes on the contributors
1973
on demolishing the panopticon
1997
Security exception ban and surveillance
2004
surveillance globalization and
1939
Surveillance assemblages and lines of flight
1965
the temporalities of surveillance
1988
surviving the inevitable war
2003
webcams power and agency
1987
monitored continuing
1990
surveillance moral governance
2002
Surveillance urbanization and the US Revolution in Military Affairs
2016
Electronic government and surveillanceoriented society
2007
towards a politics
1970
Quixotics unite Engaging the pragmatists on rational discrimination
1991
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usercentred research as input
2003

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Sobre o autor (2006)

David Lyon is Queen's Research Chair in the Sociology Department and Director of the Surveillance Project, at Queen's University, Ontario.

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