ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |103 pages
Understanding surveillance
part |27 pages
Theory I: After Foucault
part |33 pages
Theory II: Difference, politics, privacy
part |35 pages
Cultures of surveillance
part |67 pages
Surveillance as sorting
part |26 pages
Surveillance techniques
part |35 pages
Social divisions of surveillance
part |175 pages
Surveillance contexts
part |41 pages
Population control
part |34 pages
Crime and policing
chapter |8 pages
Surveillance and urban violence in Latin America
part |33 pages
Security, intelligence, war
part |29 pages
Production, consumption, administration
chapter |9 pages
Consumer surveillance
part |29 pages
Digital spaces of surveillance
part |67 pages
Limiting surveillance
part |28 pages
Ethics, law and policy
part |33 pages
Regulation and resistance