Sean Hier and Joshua Greenberg, eds., Surveillance: Power, Problems, and Politics. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009, 296 pp. $32.95 paper (978-0-7748-1612-0), $85.00 hardcover (978-0-7748-1611-3)
Surveillance studies have emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary field of scholarship, and Canadian scholars have made significant empirical and theoretical contributions to this field. Consistently paying more than just a casual nod to Lyon’s notion of “social sorting,” Haggerty and Ericson’s “surveillant assemblage,” and Haggerty, Ericson, Hier, and others’ accounts of surveillance and “visibility,” which are essential Canadian contributions to this field of research, this collection advances Canadian surveillance studies. … Read more
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