[e-privacy] [[cyber~rights] [Fwd: Final Call for Abstracts: New Geographies of Surveillance]]

[George Orwell]

----- Forwarded message -----

Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:04:45 +0100
To: "cyber-rights at ecn.org" <cyber-rights at ecn.org>
Reply-To: cyber-rights at ecn.org
Subject: [cyber~rights] [Fwd: Final Call for Abstracts: New Geographies of Surveillance]

credo che possa interessare molti...
ciao,
ac

Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:47:09 +0000
From: D F J Wood <D.F.J.Wood at NEWCASTLE.AC.UK>
Subject: Final Call for Abstracts: New Geographies of Surveillance
To: EUROPEAN-SOCIOLOGIST at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Reply-to: D F J Wood <D.F.J.Wood at NEWCASTLE.AC.UK>
Comments: To: CRIMINOLOGY at jiscmail.ac.uk

Final Call for Abstracts

Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers Annual
International Conference 2006, 30 August - 1st September 2006 at the
Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London

New Geographies of Surveillance

A double session co-sponsored by Urban Geography Research Group,
Political Geography Research Group and Surveillance & Society.

Abstract deadline: 23rd January

Session co-ordinated by: Dr David Murakami Wood, University of
Newcastle; Professor Steve Graham, University of Durham; and Dr Nick
Fyfe, University of Dundee.


With current concern over global terrorism and the 'permanent state of
emergency' that constitutes the war on terrorism, surveillance has
become a key strategy and a point of conflict and debate. Recent years
have seen a massive expansion in surveillance practices and technologies
across spatial scales from the body to the global, in settings from the
urban, through the natural environment to the virtual, and involving
actors from state institutions to private corporations, individual
people and nonhumans. The spread and intensification of surveillance has
serious sociospatial consequences in every domain from the life-chances
of individuals to the fate of nations; and the development and form of
cities, urban space and urban culture. This Session will showcase the
emerging critical geographies of surveillance.

Topics include: 

*	theorising new geographies of surveillance; 
*	local, national, regional and global trends in surveillance; 
*	case studies of new surveillance technologies and practices; 
*	surveillance and the practice of geography (such as GIS and
geodemographics); 
*	surveillance, justice and exclusion; 
*	surveillance, governance, regulation and democracy; 
*	surveillance, intelligence, war and terrorism; 
*	surveillance, territoriality and borders; 
*	surveillance, cities and urbanity; 
*	surveillance and crime; 
*	surveillance and the body; 
*	surveillance and the nonhuman; 
*	resistance to surveillance; etc.

Please send all submissions, using the abstract submission form at
http://www.rgs.org/category.php?Page=ac2006
<http://www.rgs.org/category.php?Page=ac2006>  to:

mailto:d.f.j.wood at ncl.ac.uk <mailto:d.f.j.wood at ncl.ac.uk> 

The deadline for all abstracts is January 23rd, 2006. 

Dr David Murakami Wood  

Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle
upon Tyne, UK.

Exchange Visiting Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University,
Tokyo, Japan.
(January to April 2006).



----- End forwarded message -----