Routledge Studies in Surveillance
About the Book Series
Surveillance is one of the fundamental sociotechnical processes underpinning the administration, governance and management of the modern world. It shapes how the world is experienced and enacted. The much-hyped growth in computing power and data analytics in public and private life, successive scandals concerning privacy breaches, national security and human rights have vastly increased its popularity as a research topic. The centrality of personal data collection to notions of equality, political participation and the emergence of surveillant authoritarian and post-authoritarian capitalisms, among other things, ensure that its popularity will endure within the scholarly community.
A collection of books focusing on surveillance studies, this series aims to help to overcome some of the disciplinary boundaries that surveillance scholars face by providing an informative and diverse range of books, with a variety of outputs that represent the breadth of discussions currently taking place. The series editors are directors of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP). CRISP is an interdisciplinary research centre whose work focuses on the political, legal, economic and social dimensions of the surveillance society.
Series Editors:
Kirstie Ball is Professor in Management at University of St Andrews, UK
William Webster is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Stirling, UK
Charles Raab is Professor Emeritus in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK
Pete Fussey is Professor of Criminology and Head of Department for Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK
Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing and Society at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Lachlan Urquhart Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at Edinburgh Law School, UK
States of Surveillance: Ethnographies of New Technologies in Policing and Justice
1st Edition
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By Maya Avis, Daniel Marciniak, Maria Sapignoli
January 30, 2026
Recent discussions on big data surveillance and artificial intelligence in governance have opened up an opportunity to think about the role of technology in the production of the knowledge states use to govern. The contributions in this volume examine the socio-technical assemblages that underpin ...
Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age: Precarious Coalitions, Contested Knowledge, and Diverse Opposition to Mass-Surveillance in the UK
1st Edition
By Amy Stevens
October 27, 2025
Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age provides an in-depth examination of the complexity and diversity of organised opposition to increasing state surveillance powers in the UK. Taking the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act as a central case study and combining an analysis of ...
Dossierveillance, Collaboration, and Fear in Society: The Saga of a Journey Through the Securitate Archives and Beyond
1st Edition
By Cristina Plamadeala
June 25, 2025
Exploring the cultural history of surveillance practices of the Securitate, Romania’s secret police during its communist period, the book blends biographical details in a historical inquiry to establish the concepts of psuchegraphy, dossierveillance, and banalization of evil in the study of ...
Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance
1st Edition
By Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
October 06, 2023
Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This book explores how Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it. It investigates their imaginaries about surveillance and privacy from within the Chinese socio-political system. Based on ...
Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period: 1780–1830
1st Edition
By Lucy E. Thompson
May 31, 2023
Romantic-era literature offers a key message: surveillance, in all its forms, was experienced distinctly and differently by women than men. Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period examines how familiar and neglected texts internalise and interrogate the ways in which targeted, ...
Surveillance Practices and Mental Health: The Impact of CCTV Inside Mental Health Wards
1st Edition
By Suki Desai
May 31, 2023
This book examines how CCTV cameras expose the patient body inside the mental health ward, especially the relationship between staff and patients as surveillance subjects. A key aspect of the book is that existing surveillance literature and mental health literature have largely ignored the ...
Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance
1st Edition
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By Lora Anne Viola, Paweł Laidler
May 31, 2023
Investigating the theoretical and empirical relationships between transparency and trust in the context of surveillance, this volume argues that neither transparency nor trust provides a simple and self-evident path for mitigating the negative political and social consequences of state surveillance...
Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability
1st Edition
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By Bryce Clayton Newell
April 29, 2022
Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing. They have sparked important conversations about the proper role and extent of police in society and about balancing security, oversight, accountability, privacy, and surveillance in our modern world. Police on Camera address the ...
Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States
1st Edition
By Nicole Falkenhayner
June 30, 2020
Surveillance has become a part of everyday life: we are surrounded by surveillance technologies in news media, when we go down the street, in the movies, and even carry them in our own pockets in the form of smartphones. How are we constructing imaginaries of our realities and of ourselves as ...
Surveillance and Democracy in Europe
1st Edition
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By Kirstie Ball, William Webster
February 25, 2020
Many contemporary surveillance practices take place in information infrastructures which are from the public domain. Although they have far reaching consequences for both citizens and their rights, they are not always subject to regulatory demands and oversight. This being said, democratic ...
Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space
1st Edition
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By Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, Bert-Jaap Koops
February 25, 2020
Today, public space has become a fruitful venue for surveillance of many kinds. Emerging surveillance technologies used by governments, corporations, and even individual members of the public are reshaping the very nature of physical public space. Especially in urban environments, the ability of ...
Big Data, Surveillance and Crisis Management
1st Edition
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By Kees Boersma, Chiara Fonio
December 12, 2019
Big data, surveillance, crisis management. Three largely different and richly researched fields, however, the interplay amongst these three domains is rarely addressed. In this enlightening title, the link between these three fields is explored in a consequential order through a variety of ...