The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart–phone applications, or smart traffic and navigation systems. Surveillance is nothing fundamentally new, and yet more and more questions are being asked:  • Who monitors whom, and how and why?  • How do surveillance techniques affect socio-spatial practices and relationships?  • How do they shape the fabrics of our cities, our mobilities, the spaces of the everyday?  • And what are the implications in terms of border control and the exercise of political power? Surveillance and Space responds to these modern questions by exploring the complex and varied interactions between surveillance and space. In doing so, the book also advances a programmatic reflection on the very possibility of a ‘political geography of surveillance’.

Surveillance and Mediation

Surveillance and Mediation

Surveillance and Mediation

The analytical parts of this book study a number of surveillance systems in a variety of institutional and geographical settings. Surveillance is approached in these settings not as something fixed and static, but as assemblages of practices and techniques of systematic attention that result from, and bring together, a wide range of processes, actors, devices, intentions and domains of expertise (Ball, 2002; Coaffee and Murakami Wood, 2006; Albrechtslund and Lauritsen, 2013). I hereby think not only of the processes and relations underpinning the conception, installation, development and use of particular systems, but also of the processes implied by surveillance in terms of the gathering, transfer, classification, representation and analysis of data. However, in thus placing centrally the processes and ...

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