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New Geographies of Surveillance
A double session cosponsored by Urban Geography Research Group, Political
Geography Research Group and Surveillance & Society.
Co-ordinated by: Dr David Murakami Wood, University of Newcastle; Professor
Steve Graham, University of Durham; and Dr Nick Fyfe, University of Dundee.
With current concern over global terrorism and the ‘permanent state of
emergency’ that constitutes the war on terrorism, surveillance has become a key
strategy and a point of conflict and debate. Recent years have seen a massive
expansion in surveillance practices and technologies across spatial scales from
the body to the global, in settings from the urban, through the natural
environment to the virtual, and involving actors from state institutions to
private corporations, individual people and nonhumans. The spread and
intensification of surveillance has serious sociospatial consequences in every
domain from the life-chances of individuals to the fate of nations; and the
development and form of cities, urban space and urban culture. This Session
will showcase the emerging critical geographies of surveillance.
Topics include:
theorising new geographies of surveillance;
local, national, regional and global trends in surveillance;
case studies of new surveillance technologies and practices;
surveillance and the practice of geography (such as GIS and geodemographics);
surveillance, justice and exclusion;
surveillance, governance, regulation and democracy;
surveillance, intelligence, war and terrorism;
surveillance, territoriality and borders;
surveillance, cities and urbanity;
surveillance and crime;
surveillance and the body;
surveillance and the nonhuman;
resistance to surveillance; etc.
Please send all submissions, using the abstract submission form at
http://www.rgs.org/category.php?Page=ac2006 to:
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The deadline for all submissions is January 31st, 2006.
Dr David Murakami Wood
Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
tel: +44 (0)191 222 7801
fax: +44 (0)191 222 6008
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