Special Issue: Surveillance and Security
Guest Editors: David Lyon, David Murakami Wood (Queen's University)
The Canadian Review of Sociology invites papers for a special issue on Surveillance and Security to be published in 2012. As topics of social and sociological concern, both surveillance and security have become increasingly important in the early twenty-first century. The transdisciplinary fields of Surveillance Studies and Security Studies have burgeoned, each drawing in important ways on the sociological imagination. Canadian scholars and studies of Canadian society have been vital to this growth.
This special issue is devoted to exploring what Sociology, sociologists, sociological methods and sociological theory offer the study of surveillance and security, how Surveillance Studies and Security Studies can contribute to Sociology, and the gaps and differences in approaches and understandings. It also aims to develop further Canadian contributions and to understand surveillance and security in relation to Canadian society, social relations and social problems.
Authors are invited to submit papers on topics such as:
- Distinctive surveillance and security practices and processes in Canada
- New theoretical approaches to surveillance and security
- The sociology of new surveillance and security technologies
- The political economy of surveillance and security in Canada
- Regulation and governance of surveillance and security
- Intersections of class, gender and race with surveillance and security in Canada
- The unequal and uneven distribution of surveillance and security
- Canadian reaction and resistance to surveillance and security
- Surveillance and security cultures in Canada
- National and regional comparisons with Canadian security and surveillance practices
- Globalization, security and surveillance issues
Extended deadline for submissions: July 15, 2011.
All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer-review.
Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. Please clearly indicate that the paper is intended for this special issue.
If you cannot submit online, please contact Professor Reza Nakhaie in the Editorial Office by e-mail:
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Reza Nakhaie (PhD) Executive Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9B 3P4