Surveillance & Society | News January 2003

the international journal of surveillance studies                    
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org
 
Managing Editor: Dr David Wood, mailto:[log in to unmask]

 
1. New Issue Out Now
2. Calls for Papers for future issues
3. Submitting to Surveillance & Society
4. Resource Base
5. Provisional announcement of Surveillance & Society's first major conference
 
 
1. New Issue Out Now!
 
Issue 1(2) of Surveillance & Society is out now! Themed around 'Work', it features new work by Paul Thompson, Jeff Stanton and Kathryn Stam, Benjamin Goold, Kirstie Ball and more.
 
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/journalv1i2.htm
 
 
2. Calls for Papers
 
Issue 1(3) - Foucault and Panopticism

There is still time to get your submissions in for our third issue on any aspect of the legacy of Michel Foucault for surveillance studies, the concept of 'panopticism' or Bentham's iconic 'Panopticon' . We welcome critiques, reviews, art and studies of surveillance which explicitly make use of or undermine Foucault's theories and approach, or which reconsider the legacy of the Panopticon. 
 
Deadline for submissions: March 31st 2003, publication date: end June 2003.

 
NEW CALL! Issue 1(4) - Mobilities

Mobility has become a key theme across academic disciplines, and enabling, controlling and preventing mobility is one of the most important aspects of surveillance in the 21st Century. Surveillance & Society is calling for submissions on all aspects of surveillance and mobilities, for example: mobile communications technologies and global positioning systems; migration, borders and border control; transport; automated urban infrastructures; virtual mobility; and so on. 
 
Deadline for submissions: June 30th 2003, publication date: end September 2003.
 
 
3. Submitting to Surveillance & Society

Surveillance & Society will always consider pieces on any aspect of surveillance for all issues, regardless of the main theme of the issue. 

We welcome both conventional academic papers and artistic submissions (photographs, video, poetry, code-poetry, fiction, multi-media etc.), political and technical reviews, opinion pieces and more. 

We encourage innovative approaches and can discuss any proposed submission.

For more details, see: http://www.surveillance-and-society/call.htm


4. Resource Base.

The long-awaited Surveillance & Society Resource Base for Surveillance Studies should start to be operational within the next few weeks, a bit at a time. Keep an eye out...

 
5. Provisional Announcement of Surveillance & Society's first major conference.


CCTV and Social control: the politics and practice of videosurveillance - European and Global perspectives

A of a two day conference to be held at the Centre For Criminological Research, University of Sheffield in conjucntion with the Journal - Surveillance & Society <http://www.surveillance-and-society.org> 

Thursday January 8th and Friday January 9th 2004

Although the UK has clearly the most developed public infrastructure of surveillance cameras in the world, in the wake of September 11th other countries are increasingly deploying cameras in a range of settings, including city centre streets, sporting venues, transport systems, schools, hospitals, to name but a few.

The aim of this conference is to explore the extent and diversity of CCTV deployment in different countries and institutional settings and to consider the social, political and legal issues that arise from the expansion of surveillance.  Although the conference will have a particular European focus we would especially welcome contributions from researchers in North and South America, Australia, Africa and Asia. The conference aims to be truly inter-disciplinary and welcomes contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, criminologists, socio-legal scholars, historians, economists and social scientists researching video-surveillance 

It is planned that all papers given at theconference will be considered for publication in a special edition of the web journal - Surveillance and Society.  However, acceptance of a paper for the conference is not a guarantee of publication as all submissions will be subject to normal peer review procedures. The special edition will be jointly edited by Professor Clive Norris (University of Sheffield) and Dr Mike McCahill (University of Hull). 

We particularly welcome papers on the following topics

 
Theorising CCTV surveillance 
National trends in the growth of video-surveillance – national/international perspectives 
Case studies of the impact of CCTV surveillance in different institutional settings/countries 
The effectiveness of CCTV as a crime prevention measure 
Video surveillance and social exclusion 
CCTV and the media 
CCTV and legal regulation 
The history of video surveillance 
The politics of resistance 
The contours of public acceptability of CCTV 
The new technologies of video surveillance 
CCTV and Civil liberties. 
Ethical issues in CCTV surveillance
 

The Conference Fee will be £110 (€165) for the two days and £60 (€90) for one day attendance. The fee will include refreshments and lunch, but not overnight accommodation and evening meals.

 
Information about the University of Sheffield can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/ 

Details of how to get to the University can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/travel/

Maps of the university can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/travel/maps.html

Details about the city and hotels can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/city/

The most convenient airport is located at Manchester. Sheffield is one hour away by train. Details can be found at http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/

Flights to and from Manchester can be found at http://timetables.oag.com/man/

 
A conference web page will be up and running in April. 2003 and this will give further details of accommodation, travel arrangements and the conference.


The Conference fee is payable by 1st  June 2003. 

 
Register of interest.

For those who are interested in attending the conference please register your interest by sending an email to [log in to unmask] By the 14th of March 2003 – with the following information

Name 
Country of residence 
Institutional affiliation 
Institutional address 
Telephone number 
Email address 
Proposed title/subject of paper 
If you merely are thinking of attending but do not want to give a paper – please state this clearly
Conference Preparation Timetable
 

March 14th                   Return of Register of Interest 
April 14th                   Submission of 200-300 word abstract 
April 30th                   Conference web page up and running 
June 1st                     Payment of Conference Fee 
October 1st                  Submission of papers 2003 – 
November 1st                 Final conference programme published on web. 
November 31st                Papers available to delegates on members section of    
                             conference web page 
January 8/9th 2004           Conference. 
April 2004 -                 Publication of Special Issue of Surveillance and 
                             Society – CCTV and Social Control - European and Global 
                             Perspectives.