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.

Preface: ‘Your Papers Please’: Personal and Professional Encounters with Surveillance.  Introduction: Introducing Surveillance Studies  Part 1: Understanding Surveillance  Part 1 Introduction  1.1. Theory 1: After Foucault  1.1.a. Panopticon – Discipline – Control  1.1.b. Simulation and Post-Panopticism   1.1.c. Surveillance As Biopower  1.2. Theory 2: Difference, Politics, Privacy  1.2.a. ‘You Shouldn’t Wear That Body’ – The Problematic of Surveillance and Gender  1.2.b. The Information State: A Historical Perspective on Surveillance  1.2.c. Needs For Surveillance and the Movement to Protect Privacy  1.2.d. Race and Surveillance  1.3. Cultures of Surveillance  1.3.a. Performing Surveillance  1.3.b. Ubiquitous Surveillance   1.3.c. Surveillance in Literature, Film and Television  1.3.d. Surveillance Work(ers)  Part 2: Surveillance as Sorting  Part 2 Introduction  2.1. Surveillance Techniques  2.1.a. Statistical Surveillance: Remote Sensing in the Digital Age  2.1.b. Advertising’s New Surveillance Ecosystem  2.1.c. New Technologies, Security and Surveillance  2.2. Social Divisions of Surveillance  2.2.a. Colonialism and Surveillance  2.2.b. Identity, Surveillance and Modernity: Sorting Out Who’s Who  2.2.c. The Surveillance-Industrial Complex  2.2.d. The Body as Data in the Age of Information   Part 3: Surveillance Contexts  Part 3 Introduction  3.1. Population Control  3.1.a. Borders, Identification, and Surveillance: New Regimes of Border Control   3.1.b. Urban Spaces of Surveillance  3.1.c. Seeing Population: Census and Surveillance By Numbers   3.1.d. Surveillance and Non-Humans   3.1.e. The Rise of the Surveillance School   3.2. Crime and Policing  3.2.a. Surveillance, Crime and the Police   3.2.b. Crime, Surveillance and the Media  3.2.c. The Success of Failure: Accounting For the Global Growth of CCTV  3.2.d. Surveillance and Urban Violence In Latin America: Mega Cities, Social Division, Security and Surveillance  3.3. Security, Intelligence, War  3.3.a. Military Surveillance  3.3.b. Security, Surveillance and Democracy  3.3.c. Surveillance and Terrorism  3.3.d. The Globalization of Homeland Security  3.4. Production, Consumption, Administration  3.4.a. Organization, Employees and Surveillance  3.4.b. Public Administration as Surveillance  3.4.c. Consumer Surveillance: Context, Perspectives and Concerns in the Personal Information Economy  3.5. Digital Spaces of Surveillance  3.5.a. Globalization and Surveillance  3.5.b. Surveillance and Participation on the Web 2.0  3.5.c. Hide and Seek: Surveillance of Young People on the Internet  Part 4: Limiting Surveillance  Part IV Introduction  4.1. Ethics, Law and Policy  4.1.a. A Surveillance of Care – Evaluating Surveillance Ethically  4.1.b. Regulating Surveillance: The Importance of Principles  4.1.c. Privacy, Identity and Anonymity  4.2. Regulation and Resistance  4.2.a. Regulating Surveillance Technologies: Institutional Arrangements  4.2.b. Everyday Resistance  4.2.c. Privacy Advocates, Privacy Advocacy and the Surveillance Society  4.2.d. The Politics of Surveillance: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Ethics