Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 September 2009
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

The conference will feature a full programme of papers and commentaries from our multidisciplinary international team and other invited participants, who will explore: the conceptual and theoretical foundations of identification practices; exemplary national and system case studies; the comparative and transnational dimensions... Read more about @title...

André Mondoux
Faculté de Communication
Université du Québec à Montréal

Me and My Big Brother

Wednesday, November 25th
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D-411
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Alanur Çavlin Bozbeyoğlu, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Sociology
The Turkish Academy of Sciences

To Be or Not to Be ‘Counted’: Differentiation of the Population Data Gathering System in Turkey

Following the establishment of Turkey as a nation state (1923), de facto population censuses have been used as the primary official data. In 2007, following... Read more about @title...

David Murakami Wood
Associate Professor, Sociology
Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies
Queen’s University

The 'Shock of Order': the turn to zero tolerance policing in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes, but unlike in many global cities, the poorest informal settlements, the favelas, are intertwined with some of the... Read more about @title...

Eric Stoddart
School of Divinity
St Mary's College
University of St Andrews
Scotland

Academic visitor to The Surveillance Project, Sept - Nov 2009.

Caring Surveillance

What happens when we make caring relationships the principal mode for evaluating surveillance practices? This presentation will sketch out the terrain of a critical ethic of care when it is applied to a range of surveillance practices. Drawing, initially, on the work of Joan Tronto, Virginia Held and Fiona Robinson a critical ethic of care will be utilized that goes beyond dyadic and domestic relations to a fully public appropriation.

Reconfiguring autonomy as relational and re-prioritizing the particular over the universal will open up new avenues for exploring surveillance as a necessary dimension of care and by which deleterious outcomes may also be exposed.
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Michalis Lianos
Professor
University of Rouen-Haute, Normandie

A New Understanding of Social Control

Based on a theory of institutional expansion in late modernity, this presentation largely challenges conventional wisdom on social control and contemporary systems of monitoring human behaviour.

You may listen to this lecture on Queen's University's iTunesU channel here.
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Kick off the new SP Seminar Series at our annual Research Round-up.

This meeting, traditionally the kick-off to the SP Seminar Series at Queen's University, will give everyone the opportunity to welcome new and returning students, staff and faculty and update others on recent and ongoing research as it relates to The Surveillance... Read more about @title...