This paper aims to provide an overview of surveillance theories and concepts that can help
to understand and debate surveillance in its many forms. As scholars from an increasingly …

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through
which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary …

Security requirements have been raised to a high level in nation-states around the world
following the 9/11 attacks. The resulting increase in routine surveillance of citizens, and …

This chapter focuses on the linguistic ethnographic research conducted with students and
teachers associated with a Panjabi complementary school in Birmingham, UK. The study …

Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became
popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual …

In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the
lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social …

Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them
in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about …

Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power and domination
through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike open rebellions or demonstrations, it is …

A recent study conducted in Zaatari camp, Jordan's largest facility for Syrian refugees, shows
that 86% of youth own a mobile handset and more than 50% use the internet at least once a …

In late November 1913, a dapper old man stopped into a Cleveland department store to do
some shopping. On his way out, he gave a young female clerk his name and instructed her …