Special Issue of Surveillance & Society (Volume 8, Number 2)

Guest edited by Jason Pridmore and Detlev Zwick

All papers must be submitted through the online submission system at http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/ no later than February 28th, 2010.

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This special edition of Surveillance & Society seeks to explore the myriad of ways in which consumers, consumption and market spaces have become subject to, and sites for the development and intensification of, practices of surveillance.

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The 4th bi-annual Surveilance & Society Conference

City University London, UK
April 13 – 15, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Surveillance has become a ubiquitous feature of living in the global north, with citizens routinely monitored by a range of sophisticatedtechnologies. Increasing levels of surveillance are typically justifiedand legitimated by threats of terrorism, fear of crime and disorder, asinfo/entertainment tools for the curious and through discoursesemphasizing public and private service improvement. In spite of this,little is known about the effect of surveillance on individuals,society, the democratic polity, nation states in the developed anddeveloping world, and the evolving nature of humanity.

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