Call for Papers
Special Issue for
Society & Surveillance:
Resisting
Surveillance
Public debates over the use
of information and identification technologies, (such as profiling targeted
groups and contentious arguments over the use of CCTV in public spaces),
clearly show that surveillance-based practices are highly contested political
territory within and across contemporary societies. And yet, despite a wealth
of recent literature on surveillance in its various configurations, scholars
have paid relatively little attention to issues of resistance of these
technologies. This special issue will address this deficit by collecting and
publishing papers that foreground questions as to whether surveillance can be
successfully resisted and, if so, how resistance could be engendered. To this
end, we seek papers from various disciplines and theoretical standpoints that
explore the following areas:
·
The formation of anti-surveillance
movements; conventional and non-conventional modes of challenging surveillance;
·
The potentiality of using sousveillance and/or forms of
counter-surveillance as means of engendering resistance to publicly and/or
privately sponsored surveillance schemes;
·
The use of anti-surveillance technologies
(such as disabling, encryption and anonymizer tools);
·
The creation of simulated identities and
other deceptions aimed at subverting surveillance;
·
Resistance through constitutional and
legislative measures;
·
Resistance through
the use of privacy structures, such as data protection commissioners;
·
Resistance from within bureaucracies and
agencies of social control, including both every-day and/or organized modes of
resistance (for example, workers lobbying for the removal of systems that
surveil them). This may also include resistance through the translation (or
selective deployment) of surveillance systems (for example, teachers in public
schools helping students circumvent extreme, surveillance-enabled school
discipline), and;
·
The question of whether resistance to
surveillance is ultimately possible in the short or long term.
These topics are
offered as suggestions.
We
are also open to other subjects not outlined above that speak to resistance of
surveillance as a special theme of scholarship, including art work. Please
contact the guest-editors (Laura Huey, University of Western Ontario at [log in to unmask] or Luis Fernandez,
Northern Arizona University at [log in to unmask]) in advance to
discuss proposed topics. All papers must be completed and submitted
electronically no later than November 14th. Please use standard
formatting and submit the papers in a Word file
format
