In case this has not come to attention by some other means, let me
alert you to this Ad Hoc session at the ISA World Congress next year.
Let me know if you can offer a paper.
Thanks
David
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Ad Hoc session at the International Sociological Association World
Congress, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006.
Security, Surveillance and Social Sorting
David Lyon, Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
K7L 3N6; fax: 613-533-2871, tel: 613-533-6000 x74489
Security requirements have been raised to a high level of priority in
nation-states around the world, following the attacks of 9/11. The
resulting increase in the routine surveillance of citizens, and
especially of travelers, raises questions of sociological interest
regarding the intensified means of technology-dependent governance
common to many countries. How effective are these new surveillance
measures in procuring security? By what means are risks assessed and
threats prioritized? What are the effects on civil liberties of
techniques that rely on discriminatory categories? The quality of
social existence in a globalizing world is affected directly by the
automated identification and social sorting systems that are
proliferating, especially at borders, but also within the routines of
everyday life. This Ad Hoc session will examine these processes with a
view to fostering further international comparative understanding of
contemporary surveillance.
Two sessions:
1. Profiling processes at borders and airports
2. Security and surveillance in everyday life
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