Thursday, March 19th
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry, Room D-411
Queen's University
Surveillance studies, as Kevin Haggerty points out, has so far paid relatively little attention to the surveillance “of nonhuman entities” or to the “social and political implications” of such scrutiny. Although this is beginning to change, there is still much work yet to be done - in terms of understanding our motives and methods for surveilling animals and other nonhumans, and in the interests of expanding our understanding of the subject-object and interspecies relationships this kind of sustained, intentional, and often systematic observation facilitates and produces.
This presentation focuses on one particular form of nonhuman surveillance - the video-mediated observation of animals - to examine some of the ways in which animal surveillance resembles technological rationalism but also to investigate the possibility of a less stifling reading of the human-animal-technology relationship that resists the reductive logic of instrumentality.
Everyone welcome!
The Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o David Murakami Wood
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
Canada