Description:
Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in the context of policing and security, the book explores how a diverse range of social groups ('school children', 'political protesters', 'offenders', 'unemployed people', 'migrants', and 'police officers') experience and respond to being monitored by 'new surveillance' technologies such as CCTV surveillance cameras and computers.
Review Quotes:
'Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a fascinating empirical study of the lives of different surveilled subjects. In a rich analysis, it explores their experiences with enormous sensitivity and depth to produce new insights into surveillance as it intersects with class, ethnicity and gender.' - Kirstie Ball, Reader in Surveillance and Organization, The Open University, UK
'Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a tour de force which considerably extends our understanding of the everyday experience of living in the surveillance society. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, with school children, migrant workers, police officers and prolific offenders amongst others, Mike McCahill and Rachel Finn have provided us with a fascinating and empirically rich account of surveillance from below. Whilst being methodologically accomplished and theoretically sophisticated, this is a highly readable book full of intelligence and insight. This is sociology at its best and will stand as one of the key texts in the study of surveillance for a long time to come.' - Professor Clive Norris, Department of Sociological Studies, The University of Sheffield, UK