Surveillance and Space (Society and Space) - Hardcover

Francisco R Klauser

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473907764 ISBN 13: 9781473907768

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

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’.

 

About this title

About the Author

?Francisco R. Klauser ?is Professor of Political Geography at The University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473907764
• ISBN 13: 9781473907768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208