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Spaces of Surveillance

States and Selves

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Susan Flynn

    1. School of Media, University of the Arts London, London, UK

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  2. Antonia Mackay

    1. Department of English and Modern Languages, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

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  • Includes an afterword written by Professor Vian Bakir, Bangor University
  • Offers a unique insight into the ways in which identity has been shaped and defined by changing technology and its resultant effect on bodies. This is the first multidisciplinary account of how surveillance has affected identity
  • The systematic approach from one area of study to another offers substantial insight into key aspects of surveillance culture in the modern world, engaging with issues of transgression, gender politics, consumer culture and semblance
  • The edited collection speaks to various interdisciplinary concerns such as linguistics, American Literature, African American Studies, Art, Photography, Cultural Studies and Film Studies
  • The collection’s textual scope is of particular interest ranging from canonical and non-canonical texts, to popular literature and main stream cinema, and enters into dialogue with each other and other culture and media forms
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay
    Pages 1-18

  3. Erratum to: Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, From the First to the Second Person

    • Jeffrey Clapp
    Pages E1-E1

  6. States, Place and Bodies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Castrating Blackness: Surveillance, Profiling and Management in the Canadian Context

      • Sam Tecle, Tapo Chimbganda, Francesca D’Amico, Yafet Tewelde
      Pages 187-210

    3. Sousveillance as a Tool in US Civic Polity

      • Mary Ryan
      Pages 211-227

    4. Medical Surveillance and Bodily Privacy: Secret Selves and Graph Diaspora

      • Susan Flynn
      Pages 229-243

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 245-278
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About this book

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, and makes the connection between our sense of ‘self’ and what is ‘seen’. In our post-panoptical world which purports to proffer freedom of movement, technology notes our movements and habits at every turn. Surveillance seeps out from businesses and power structures to blur the lines of security and confidentiality. This unsettling loss of privacy plays out in contemporary narratives, where the ‘selves’ we create are troubled by surveillance. This collection will appeal to scholars of media and cultural studies, contemporary literature, film and art and American studies. 
 
 

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“Spaces of Surveillance will prove to be invaluable resources for researchers of surveillance studies, as well as those interested in digital culture, technology, biopolitics, film studies, and literary studies. The quality of the analyses in this highly stimulatingvolume itself provides a case for reading Flynn and McKay’s book, while the novelty of the topics found therein no doubt broadens our perspective on the current state of surveillance and the cultural impact it constitutes.” (Barnabás Baranyi, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 25 (1), 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Media, University of the Arts London, London, UK

    Susan Flynn

  • Department of English and Modern Languages, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Antonia Mackay

About the editors

Susan Flynn lectures at University of the Arts, London, UK, in Media Communications and Cultural Studies. A graduate of the Equality Studies Centre at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland, her work to date has focussed on media representations of ability, medical surveillance and non-normative identities.
 
Antonia Mackay lectures at Oxford Brookes University and Goldsmiths University of London, UK. Specialising in American literature, culture and theatre, her work is centred on American identity and the concerns of the 20th and  21st century.



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