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3rd Surveillance & Society
Conference
InVisibilities
The
politics, practice and experience of surveillance in everyday life
A
two-day international conference hosted by the Centre for Criminological
Research,
http://www.surveillance-studies.net
Wednesday
2nd April - Thursday 3rd April
2008
While
many of the world’s nations are becoming surveillance societies, the nature of
life with surveillance in those societies is far from homogeneous, and is not
widely researched or theorised. This conference focuses on the lived realities
of surveillance and is keen to encourage empirical studies which document its
everyday experience.
By
its very nature surveillance makes populations visible, and differentiates
between their members; surveillance itself features varied techniques,
intensities and foci. Whether as
workers, consumers, children, patients, criminals, web surfers or travellers we
are made visible in different ways, through different technologies and
administrative regimes. Visibility
is not always total, unproductive or oppressive – visibility is necessarily
partial. For some it is
actively embraced: lives are lived in visibility.
Nevertheless,
widespread ambivalence towards surveillance has been noted in academic, policy
and media circles. As surveillance confers benefits and incurs costs on
individuals, personal information economies of surveillance emerge. In building personal strategies which
involve surveillance practices, invisibilities are negotiated to mediate, limit
and exploit exposure to surveillance.
How individuals, groups, organizations and societies negotiate,
experience, resist, comply with, and enjoy surveillance are critical empirical
questions, which appeal to surveillance scholars from a wide range of social
science disciplines.
Key
themes to include:
·
Experiencing
Surveillance and Visibility
·
Participatory
and Voluntary Surveillance
·
Theorising
(in)visibility
·
Histories
of Surveillance and Visibility
·
Surveillance
of the Other - Visibility and Difference
·
Representations
of Surveillance in Film/Art/Literature/Media
·
State
Surveillance and Identification
·
Surveillance,
visibility and the welfare state
·
Surveillance
and consumer visibility
·
The
transparent body
·
Electronic
visibilities
·
(In)visibility
and labour
·
Negotiating
(in)visibility
·
Researching
(in)visibility
·
Spatial
visibilities
·
Surveillance
futures
FEES
& LOCAL INFORMATION
This is a non-residential conference
and participants will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation. The
Conference will be held at ‘The Edge’,
The Conference Fee is £200 per
person, which includes refreshments and lunch, and two years’ membership of
Surveillance Studies Network. For
those not wishing to join SSN the conference fee is £175.
There will be a conference dinner on
Wednesday April 2nd for an additional fee of
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A conference web page will be up
and running in November 2007 and this will give further details of possible
accommodation, travel arrangements and the conference programme once it is
finalised.
SUBMISSION
OF ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION OF INTERESTS
If
you would like to give a paper please submit your abstract to Lisa Burns [log in to unmask] at the
If
you would like to attend the conference but not give a paper, please also let us
know.
We
look forward to hearing from you
Professor
Clive Norris
Dr
Kirstie Ball