Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Surveillance Societies and the Price of Security

Editors: Lee Quinby and Sylvia Tomasch

This volume of collected essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives will address crucial questions about how much we as individuals and members of society are willing to “pay” – economically, ethically, and politically – in order to attain security.

We invite submissions from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches that focus on the costs of surveillance, understood not merely in financial terms and risk assessment but in regard to tradeoffs of freedom and exchanges of power. What are the foremost tensions between security and surveillance? Who will watch the watchers? What forms of resistance have been and might be mustered against intrusions by monitoring agencies? Read more