Routledge Studies in Surveillance

Surveillance is one of the fundamental sociotechnical processes underpinning the administration, governance and management of the modern world. It shapes how the world is experienced and enacted. The much-hyped growth in computing power and data analytics in public and private life, successive scandals concerning privacy breaches, national security and human rights have vastly increased its popularity as a research topic. The centrality of personal data collection to notions of equality, political participation and the emergence of surveillant authoritarian and post-authoritarian capitalisms, among other things, ensure that its popularity will endure within the scholarly community.

A collection of books focusing on surveillance studies, this series aims to help to overcome some of the disciplinary boundaries that surveillance scholars face by providing an informative and diverse range of books, with a variety of outputs that represent the breadth of discussions currently taking place. The series editors are directors of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP). CRISP is an interdisciplinary research centre whose work focuses on the political, legal, economic and social dimensions of the surveillance society.

 

Series Editors:

Kirstie Ball is Professor in Management at University of St Andrews, UK

William Webster is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Stirling, UK

Charles Raab is Professor Emeritus in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK

Pete Fussey is Professor of Criminology and Head of Department for Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK

Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing and Society at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Lachlan Urquhart Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at Edinburgh Law School, UK