Call for Essays for a Collected Volume: 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? We are interested in essays that cover historical instances and those dealing with recent modes of surveillance made possible by the growth of networked computer databases. Essays that take into account shifts stemming from changes in various countries and transnational entities employing new digital technologies as well as those that focus on historical precedents and parallels are particularly welcome. We urge analysis that goes beyond critiques of surveillance per se to explore modes of assessment that also take into account possible benefits. Please send hard copy submissions of essays no longer than 35 double-spaced manuscript pages (including notes) to: Watchers, attn: Michael Teitel, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, 35 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023. For questions, write: lee.quinby @ mhc.cuny.edu or sylvia.tomasch @ mhc.cuny.edu. Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2009 http://www.surveillance-studies.net/?p=30#more-30 -- Olga P Massanet ·························· www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
