Surveillance, Architecture and Control

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This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment. Expanding on discussions from previous collections; Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves (2017) and Surveillance, Race, Culture (2018), this book seeks to explore instances of surveillance within and around specific architectural entities, both historical and fictitious, buildings with specific social purposes and those existing in fiction, film, photography, performance and art. Providing new readings of, and expanding on Foucault’s work on the panopticon, these essays examine the role of surveillance via disparate fields of enquiry, such as the humanities, social sciences, technological studies, design and environmental disciplines. Surveillance, Architecture and Control seeks to engender new debates about the nature of the surveilled environment through detailed analyses of architectural structures and spaces; examining how cultural, geographical and built space buttress and produce power relations. The various essays address the ongoing fascination with contemporary notions of surveillance and control.
Offers a unique insight into the ways in which architecture contributes to cultural notions of surveillance Constitutes the first multidisciplinary account which examines how architecture and the built environment’s surveilling qualities can affect identity Engages with issues of geographical space, domestic architecture, literary, artistic, film and popular cultural analysis

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Susan Flynn

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“Surveillance, architecture and control is a key text for all scholars who are researching surveillance regardless of their discipline. The different sections in this book show the wide variety of surveilled spaces and they reveal the potential for further analysis into the relationship between surveillance and architecture. ... a cultural studies approach to surveillance studies enriches the discussions and debates in this field and it demonstrates why a transdisciplinary approach to surveillance studies is necessary.” (Jade Hinchliffe, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, Vol. 7 (1), 2019)

“Buildings will never seem quite the same again. This collection gives us a key to create better environments and to inhabit them more critically.” (Eric Stoddart, University of St Andrews, Scotland)

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