Surveillance & Society
| New Call for Papers
Gender,
Sexuality and Surveillance
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org
Deadline: March 31st 2008.
Kirstie Ball, Nicola
Green, Hille Koskela, David J. Phillips
Since its inception,
surveillance studies has highlighted how monitoring practices divide, classify,
order and sort target populations. It has been argued not only that populations
assigned to different categories are subjected to different intensities and
kinds of surveillance, but also that surveillance itself is integral to the
production of those populations.
With a few exceptions,
gender and sexuality – as ubiquitous structuring principles in society
– have been neglected within surveillance studies. The body and its
desires, as they are invoked in mainstream surveillance studies, tend to be
assumed rather than specified. In this special issue of Surveillance and Society, we are therefore
interested in explicitly examining the relations among gender, sexuality, and
surveillance. Hence, this issue foregrounds and highlights how the gaze is
gendered and sexualized, how surveillance is experienced across populations,
and how the construction of subjectivities and bodies via surveillance
practices invokes gender and sexuality. Moreover, we hope to consider how
feminist and queer theories might be used to understand and explain
surveillance practices, and to highlight debates about the technocentrism
associated with surveillance studies. Surveillance studies is itself
historically constructed by male theorists, and it is notable that key feminist
works that focus on discipline, subjectivity, power and the body [such as that
of Bordo (1989, 1993),
Contributions are
welcome on any of the following themes, which might include, but are not
limited to:
Full papers, research
notes, reviews, opinion pieces, art and poetry submissions should be sent
electronically to Emily Smith ([log in to unmask])
by 31st March 2008.
Bibliography:
Bordo, S. (1989)
“The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist Appropriation of
Foucault.” In Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo (eds). Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of
Being and Knowing.
Bordo, S. (1993) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the
Body
McNay, L. (1992) Foucault and Feminism: Power, Gender and the Self.
Ramazanoglu, C.
(ed)(1993) Up Against Foucault: explorations
of some tensions between Foucault and feminism
Sawicki, J. (1991) Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body
Address for
Submissions
Surveillance
& Society Editorial Assistant, Emily Smith