SSC Reading Group

  • Friday, January 28, 2011 - 11:30am to Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 12:45pm

SSC Reading Group

Friday, January 28th, 2011
11:30am - 13:00pm
Mac-Corry Hall, Room D-411

Welcome back! Our next SSC Reading Group meeting will take place on Friday, January 28th, in the Sociology Lounge (D411), Mac-Corry, at Queen's.

The reading we will be discussing at this meeting is:

Elia Zureik's introductory chapter in "Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine".
(Zureik, E., D. Lyon and Y. Abu-Laban. (eds) (2010) Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine, London: Routledge)

Recommended background readings are:

Major, A. J. (1999) "State and Criminal Tribes in Colonial Punjab: Surveillance, Control and Reclamation of the 'Dangerous Classes'", Modern Asian Studies, 33(3): 657–688.

Brown, M. (2001) "Race, Science and the Construction of Native Criminality in Colonial India", Theoretical Criminology, 5: 345.

Legg, S. (2005) "Foucault's Population Geographies: Classifications, Biopolitics and Governmental Spaces", Popul. Space Place, 11: 137-156.

Hannah, M. (1997) "Space and the structuring of disciplinary power:
an interpretive review", Geogr. Ann., 79 B (3): 171-180.

Zureik, E. (2001) "Constructing Palestine through Surveillance Practices", British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 28(2): 205-227.

Everyone welcome!

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