A Corrected Call for Paper for Issue 3(4): Doing Surveillance Studies
Edited by Kirstie Ball and Kevin Haggerty
Publication date: December 2005
Deadline for submissions: August 1st 2005
Call:
Surveillance & Society issue 3(4) will be focusing on the question of
how we, as scholars, 'do' surveillance studies. The field of
surveillance studies is still in its infancy, but contributors range
from subjects of social science, humanities, liberal arts and even some
of the engineering sciences. Addressing methodological questions
concerning the unit of analysis, appropriate epistemologies, and the
overall validity of what we produce will determine the legitimacy and
communicability of our work for the future. Specific issues concern
(among others):
* Spatial concepts and variables: their operationalisation,
capture, representation and analysis.
* Temporal concepts and variables: how researchers can represent
social process and action whilst using a time-honoured set of tools
which, by necessity 'freeze' what is being observed.
* Epistemological issues concerning our treatment of action,
structure, virtuality, identity, boundaries of the self, being and
becoming
* Ethical issues in surveillance based research
* The design of surveillance based research
* The strengths and weaknesses of our own disciplinary boundaries
* The nature and role of interdisciplinarity within surveillance
studies
* Whether there is a 'normal' way to conduct surveillance based
research
* The application of particular analytical techniques and their
suitability for scenarios where we see surveillance-in-action.
* Reflexive accounts of surveillance scholars.
* The role of provocation in surveillance studies.
Kindly submit papers to Kirstie Ball ([log in to unmask]) by August
1st, following our Submission Guidelines.
Dr David Wood
Managing Editor
Surveillance & Society
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/
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