Surveillance Studies: An Overview

by David Lyon

Book Overview

The study of surveillance is more relevant than ever before. The fast growth of the field of surveillance studies reflects both the urgency of civil liberties and privacy questions in the 'war on terror' era and the classical social science debates over the power of watching and classification, from Bentham to Foucault and beyond. In this overview, David Lyon, one of the pioneers of surveillance studies, fuses with aplomb classical debates and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074563592X
• ISBN13: 9780745635927
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"