By: David Lyon (Editor), Kevin Haggerty (Editor), Kirstie Ball (Editor)

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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.

"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

List of illustrations	p. x
List of contributors	p. xi
Preface: "Your Papers please": personal and professional encounters with surveillance	p. xx
Introducing surveillance studies	p. 1
Understanding surveillance	p. 13
Introduction: Understanding surveillance	p. 15
Theory I: After Foucault	p. 19
Panopticon-discipline-control	p. 21
Simulation and post-panopticism	p. 30
Surveillance as biopower	p. 38
Theory II: Difference, politics, privacy	p. 47
"You shouldn't wear that body": The problematic of surveillance and gender	p. 49
The information state: An historical perspective on surveillance	p. 57
"Needs" for surveillance and the movement to protect privacy	p. 64
Race and surveillance	p. 72
Cultures of surveillance	p. 81
Performing surveillance	p. 83
Ubiquitous surveillance	p. 91
Surveillance in literature, film and television	p. 99
Surveillance work(ers)	p. 107
Surveillance as sorting	p. 117
Introduction: Surveillance as sorting	p. 119
Surveillance techniques	p. 123
Statistical surveillance: Remote sensing in the digital age	p. 125
Advertising's new surveillance ecosystem	p. 133
New technologies, security and surveillance	p. 141
Social divisions of surveillance	p. 149
Colonialism and surveillance	p. 151
Identity, surveillance and modernity: Sorting out who's who	p. 159
The surveillance-industrial complex	p. 167
The body as data in the age of information	p. 176
Surveillance contexts	p. 185
Introduction: Contexts of surveillance	p. 187
Population control	p. 191
Borders, identification and surveillance: New regimes of border control	p. 193
Urban spaces of surveillance	p. 201
Seeing population: Census and surveillance by numbers	p. 209
Surveillance and non-humans	p. 217
The rise of the surveillance school	p. 225
Crime and policing	p. 233
Surveillance, crime and the police	p. 235
Crime, surveillance and the media	p. 244
The success of failure: Accounting for the global growth of CCTV	p. 251
Surveillance and urban violence in Latin America: Mega-cities, social division, security and surveillance	p. 259
Security, intelligence, war	p. 267
Military surveillance	p. 269
Security, surveillance and democracy	p. 277
Surveillance and terrorism	p. 285
The globalization of homeland security	p. 292
Production, consumption, administration	p. 301
Organization, employees and surveillance	p. 303
Public administration as surveillance	p. 313
Consumer surveillance: Context, perspectives and concerns in the personal information economy	p. 321
Digital spaces of surveillance	p. 331
Globalization and surveillance	p. 333
Surveillance and participation on Web 2.0	p. 343
Hide and seek: Surveillance of young people on the internet	p. 352
Limiting surveillance	p. 361
Introduction: Limiting surveillance	p. 363
Ethics, law and policy	p. 367
A surveillance of care: Evaluating surveillance ethically	p. 369
Regulating surveillance: The importance of principles	p. 377
Privacy, identity and anonymity	p. 386
Regulation and resistance	p. 395
Regulating surveillance technologies: Institutional arrangements	p. 397
Everyday resistance	p. 405
Privacy advocates, privacy advocacy and the surveillance society	p. 412
The politics of surveillance: Civil liberties, human rights and ethics	p. 420
Index	p. 428
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ISBN: 9780415588836
ISBN-10: 0415588839
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 460
Published: 10th May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 24.6 x 17.4  x 3.0
Weight (kg): 0.998