Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond

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David Lyon
Willan Publishing, 2006 - 351 Seiten
The papers in this collection focus on the "why" of surveillance studies -- a relatively new multi-disciplinary enterprise that aims to understand who watches who, how the watched participate in and sometimes question their surveillance, why surveillance occurs, and with what effects. The field has been dominated, since the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault, by the idea of the panopticon and this book explores why this metaphor has been central to discussions of surveillance, what is fruitful in the panoptic approach, and what other 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.

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The search for surveillance theories
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on demolishing the panopticon
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Security exception ban and surveillance
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