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.
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 a Professorial Fellow within the department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Pete Fussey is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Essex, UK.
Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing and Society in CBiS at University of Coventry, UK.
Lachlan D. Urquhart is Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at University of Edinburgh, UK.
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.
By Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
October 06, 2023
Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This book explores how Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it. It investigates their imaginaries about surveillance and privacy from within the Chinese socio-political system. Based on ...
By Suki Desai
May 31, 2023
This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship between staff and patients as surveillance subjects. A key aspect of the book is that existing surveillance literature and mental health literature have largely ignored the ...
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By Lora Anne Viola, Paweł Laidler
May 31, 2023
Investigating the theoretical and empirical relationships between transparency and trust in the context of surveillance, this volume argues that neither transparency nor trust provides a simple and self-evident path for mitigating the negative political and social consequences of state surveillance...
By Lucy E. Thompson
December 30, 2021
Romantic-era literature offers a key message: surveillance, in all its forms, was experienced distinctly and differently by women than men. Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period examines how familiar and neglected texts internalise and interrogate the ways in which targeted, ...
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By Kirstie Ball, William Webster
August 08, 2018
Many contemporary surveillance practices take place in information infrastructures which are from the public domain. Although they have far reaching consequences for both citizens and their rights, they are not always subject to regulatory demands and oversight. This being said, democratic ...