Surveillance, Capital and Resistance

It has been said that the study of surveillance has been particularly good at studying the watchers, but not as good as studying the watched. This book marks a decisive break with Foucauldian perspectives by placing the subjects of surveillance on centre stage. Based on a large research project based in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in the context of policing and security, Michael McCahill explores how a diverse range of social groups ( school children, political protesters, persistent offenders, flawed consumers, global migrants, and police officers ) experience and respond to being monitored by a wide range of new surveillance technologies (CCTV cameras, Electronic Monitoring, and drug testing) used across the public-private divide.