Theorizing Surveillance

By: David Lyon (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 August 2006 | Edition Number 1

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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 âwhyâ 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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Jeremy BenthamaaC--a s panopticon was a revolutionary prison designed for its inmates to be observed by a central (but himself unseen) observeraaC--"a post for which the eminent philosopher, who hoped to reform as well as incarcerate prisoners, volunteered his own servicesaaC--"and the panopticon remains the central image of the expanding and indeed exploding subject of surveillance studies. Closed circuit television coverage makes us all subject to the gaze of the unseen observer, and the computers and mobile telephones at our disposal create further possibilities for surveillance.Should those possibilities be ignored, resisted, or analyzed and assessed in terms of their full implications? First, they to be made evident;and that is what this volume helps to do. David Lyon, a Canadian academic who has written widely on the implications of the development of the aaC--Eusurveillance societyaaC--a , points to a conundrum:aaC--Euthe more stringent and rigorous the panoptic regime, the more it generates active resistance, whereas the more soft and subtle the panoptic strategies, the more it produces the desired docile bodies.aaC--a This book considers a range of panoptic and post-panoptic devices, ranging from the maximum security prison to the self-imposed surveillance of aaC--Eucontinuing professional developmentaaC--a in the medical profession, in order to explore the implications of the surveillance society in greater depth.The result of an academic conference in Canada, it brings together an extraordinary range of ideas and is an absorbing if not an easy read. Peter Villiers

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The search for surveillance theories
Tear down the walls: on demolishing the panopticon
Security, exception, ban and surveillance
Looking into the future: surveillance, globalization and the totalitarian potential
Surveillance assemblages and lines of flight
Tense theory: the temporalities of surveillance
Pre-empting panoptic surveillance: surviving the inevitable war on terror
'The other side of surveillance': webcams, power and agency
Telemonitoring of cardiac patients: user-centred research as input for surveillance theories
The role of confession in reflective practice: monitored continuing professional development (CPD) in health care and the paradox of professional autonomy
Supplementing the panoptic paradigm: surveillance, moral governance and CCTV
Surveillance, urbanization and the US 'revolution in military affairs'
Electronic government and surveillance-oriented society
Organization, surveillance and the body: towards a politics of resistance
Quixotics unite! Engaging the pragmatists on rational discrimination
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