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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 12 November 2010 18:39 To: SSS911-L; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Subject: CfP: Surveillance & Society 9(4): Cities and Surveillance Call for Papers The New Urban Surveillance: Technology, Mobility, and Diversity in 21st Century Cities Surveillance & Society, volume 9, number 4, 2011 http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs Edited by: Randy K. Lippert, University of Windsor, [log in to unmask] David Murakami Wood, Queen's University, [log in to unmask] This special issue invites empirical and theoretical contributions from all disciplines on emergent forms of urban surveillance. Sometime around 2007 the world reached a 'watershed in human history'- the urban population surpassed the rural (Davis 2007). Surveillance may soon be urban surveillance by definition. Surveillance is a long-standing component of urban life and in the emergent highly-developed ' cybercities' it is becoming more concentrated, hidden, passive, functional, mobile, and varied. Jane Jacobs famously remarked that what makes cities distinct from intimate towns and sprawling suburbs is that the urban is filled with strangers living in close proximity to one another. But in some cities surveillance is intensifying and mutating such that the strangeness and anonymity of urban life seems to be fast fading. Emblematic of increasing mutations, mobility and power asymmetries of surveillance is the recent linking of public and private camera surveillance systems in Chicago and the remarkable spread of cell phone camera use and image transfer by average pedestrians and similar use of hand-held devices by police patrols on city streets. These blur distinctions between public and private and surveillance and ' sousveillance' and require new concepts and approaches. New iris-scanners are promoted as working 'on the fly' and in larger public spaces. Facial recognition technology combined with digital video surveillance can rest on racialized facial features. Yet, the social sorting implications of these newer forms, ranging from radio-frequency identification in retail stores to biometric technologies in condominium complexes, remain largely unexplored in surveillance studies in relation to increasingly racially/ethnically fluid and diverse cities where they may well have the most impact. These forms seem increasingly focused as much inward as outward whereby institutional behaviour of retail clerks, bus drivers, and condominium residents is becoming monitored as much as conduct of customers, public commuters, and visitors, the iterations and implications of which need study. Closer attention to distinctively urban institutions and spaces, involving these modes and agents, as well as office tower and factory workplaces, business improvement districts ( BIDs), Privately-Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) and entertainment areas is required too. Whether and how 'global cities' - established (e.g. London, Tokyo) or aspirational (e.g. Vancouver) - 'shrinking cities' such as Detroit, or the fast-growing 'megacities' of China, India, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa may be experiencing this transformation remains understudied and the theoretical implications underdeveloped. This special issue invites contributions from across the disciplines that focus on these new forms of urban surveillance and the new contexts in which they are being deployed. Suggested topics include: * The urban, urbanity, urbanism and surveillance * 'Urban Studies' and 'Surveillance Studies' * Architecture, buildings, infrastructures and surveillance * Technologies and practices of urban surveillance: design, capabilities, promotion, (ab)use, failure etc. * Forms of surveillance deployed in distinctively urban institutions and spaces * Urban mobilities and surveillance * Urban cultures, subcultures, multiculturalism and surveillance * Politics of urban surveillance: intentions, reception, reaction, acceptance, resistance etc. * Political economies of urban surveillance: the interaction of place-marketing, urban competition, civic boosterism with safety, security and surveillance * The diversity of agents, targets, and forms of urban surveillance * New and under-used theoretical and conceptual approaches to urban surveillance We also welcome other subjects not outlined above, opinion pieces and research notes, as well as art, new media and other cultural responses. Please contact the guest-editors in advance to discuss proposed topics. All papers must be completed and submitted electronically no later than April 1st 2011. Please use standard formatting and submit via the online system: http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/informatio n/authors <http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/manager/i nformation/authors> Key dates: April 1st 2011: submission deadline July 1st 2011: reviews returned October 1st 2011: revised versions deadline December 1st 2011: publication Dr David Murakami Wood Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Surveillance Studies | Surveillance Studies Centre Associate Professor | Department of Sociology | Cross-Appointed in Department of Geography Queen's University | Ontario e-mail: [log in to unmask] | blog: http://ubisurv.wordpress.com Managing Editor | Surveillance & Society | http://www.surveillance-and-society.org Trustee | Surveillance Studies Network | http://www.surveillance-studies.net ************************************************************************ ************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html ************************************************************************ ************* ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************