Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] The politics,
practice and experience of surveillance in everyday life
Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
> Da: D F J Wood <d.f.j.wood@???>
> Data: 13 settembre 2007 14:39:04 GMT+02:00
> A: EUROPEAN-SOCIOLOGIST@???
> Oggetto: InVisibilities Conference
> Rispondi a: D F J Wood <d.f.j.wood@???>
>
>
> 3rd Surveillance & Society Conference
> InVisibilities
> The politics, practice and experience of surveillance in everyday life
>
> A two-day international conference hosted by the Centre for
> Criminological Research, University of Sheffield in association
> with the Surveillance Studies Network
> http://www.surveillance-studies.net /conference.htm
>
> Wednesday 2nd April - Thursday 3rd April 2008
>
> While many of the world’s nations are becoming surveillance
> societies, the nature of life with surveillance in those societies
> is far from homogeneous, and is not widely researched or theorised.
> This conference focuses on the lived realities of surveillance and
> is keen to encourage empirical studies which document its everyday
> experience.
>
> By its very nature surveillance makes populations visible, and
> differentiates between their members; surveillance itself features
> varied techniques, intensities and foci. Whether as workers,
> consumers, children, patients, criminals, web surfers or travellers
> we are made visible in different ways, through different
> technologies and administrative regimes. Visibility is not always
> total, unproductive or oppressive – visibility is necessarily
> partial. For some it is actively embraced: lives are lived in
> visibility.
>
> Nevertheless, widespread ambivalence towards surveillance has been
> noted in academic, policy and media circles. As surveillance
> confers benefits and incurs costs on individuals, personal
> information economies of surveillance emerge. In building personal
> strategies which involve surveillance practices, invisibilities are
> negotiated to mediate, limit and exploit exposure to surveillance.
> How individuals, groups, organizations and societies negotiate,
> experience, resist, comply with, and enjoy surveillance are
> critical empirical questions, which appeal to surveillance scholars
> from a wide range of social science disciplines.
>
> Key themes to include:
>
> · Experiencing Surveillance and Visibility
> · Participatory and Voluntary Surveillance
> · Theorising (in)visibility
> · Histories of Surveillance and Visibility
> · Surveillance of the Other - Visibility and
> Difference
> · Representations of Surveillance in Film/Art/
> Literature/Media
> · State Surveillance and Identification
> · Surveillance, visibility and the welfare state
> · Surveillance and consumer visibility
> · The transparent body
> · Electronic visibilities
> · (In)visibility and labour
> · Negotiating (in)visibility
> · Researching (in)visibility
> · Spatial visibilities
> · Surveillance futures
>
> FEES & LOCAL INFORMATION
> This is a non-residential conference and participants will need to
> make their own arrangements for accommodation. The Conference will
> be held at ‘The Edge’, Sheffield University’s new state of the art
> conference venue.
> The Conference Fee is £200 per person, which includes refreshments
> and lunch, and two years’ membership of Surveillance Studies
> Network. For those not wishing to join SSN the conference fee is
> £175.
> There will be a conference dinner on Wednesday April 2nd for an
> additional fee of XX
> Information about the Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research
> can be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ccr/ > Information about the University of Sheffield can be found at:
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/ > Details of how to get to the University can be found at: http:// > www.shef.ac.uk/travel/ > Information about The Edge can be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ > conferences/facilities/residential/edge.html
> Maps of the university can be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ > travel/maps.html
> Details about the city and hotels can be found at: http:// > www.shef.ac.uk/city/ > The most convenient airport is located at Manchester. Sheffield is
> one hour away by train. Details can be found at: http:// > www.manchesterairport.co.uk/ > Flights to and from Manchester can be found at: http:// > timetables.oag.com/man/
>
> A conference web page will be up and running in November 2007 and
> this will give further details of possible accommodation, travel
> arrangements and the conference programme once it is finalised.
>
> SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION OF INTERESTS
>
> If you would like to give a paper please submit your abstract to
> Lisa Burns L.K.Burns@??? at the University of Sheffield by
> January 31st 2008. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words.
> Your abstract should also contain the following information.
>
> Name
> Country of residence
> Institutional affiliation
> Institutional address
> Telephone number
> Email address
>
> If you would like to attend the conference but not give a paper,
> please also let us know.
>
> We look forward to hearing from you
>
> Professor Clive Norris
> Dr Kirstie Ball
