Simone Browne
Biographic Data
| ID | 191353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Browne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Browne |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0926-0963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Food industry degrowth as a public health strategy: The case of ultra processed baked goods
Evidence associates ultra-processed food and beverage (UPF) diets to diverse non-communicable diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health disorders. Efforts to reformulate by reducing salt, sugar and unhealthy fats in such foods, have not changed the fact that UPFs are an increasing proportion of population diets. The UPF industry is rooted in growth – a fundamental logic at the heart of publicly traded and for…
Conversation: Surveillance / Environment / Nature / Sustainability
One of the key areas that surveillance studies has been conspicuously little involved in, with only a few exceptions (Donaldson and Wood, 2004; Donaldson 2012; Ottinger 2010; Haggerty and Trottier 2015; Archer 2021), has been the environment and nature. As it becomes increasingly obvious that the effects of the climate crisis are already with us, and with biodiversity loss accelerating, and the environmental justice issues associated with these c…
Obesity, public health ethics and the nanny state
Unhealthy dietary patterns are an important contributor to obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). As with any public health challenge, as well as providing care to affected individuals, whole-population interventions are required to mitigate the environmental determinants of population dietary patterns. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has established recommendations, including a set of low-cost, high-impact ‘best buys’ for gove…
Capture, Illegibility, Necessity: A Conversation on Black Privacy
Dear Simone,Thinking through the concept, problematic, and potentiality of Black privacy requires me, in the first instance, to take the terms apart. In other words, before attending to privacy and
How are frames generated? Insights from the industry lobby against the sugar tax in Ireland
There is a causal link between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancers. Despite this, no country in the world has reduced its obesity levels because the factors that drive obesity continue unchanged (Swinburn et al., 2019). One systemic driver is corporate influence on the public policy process. The world's largest food and beverage manufacturers engage …
Race, Communities and Informers
Race and surveillance
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of tr…
The Obamas and the New Politics of Race
Everybody's Got a Little Light Under the Sun: Black Luminosity and the Visual Culture of Surveillance
This article examines the production of The Book of Negroes during the British evacuation of New York in 1783 and situates it as the first government-issued document for state regulated migration between the United States and Canada that explicitly links corporeal identifiers to the right to travel. I do this to argue that the body made legible with the modern passport system has a history in the technologies of tracking blackness. I explore surv…
A Veritable Hotbed of Feminism: Women's Liberation in St Andrews, Scotland, c.1968-c.1979
Early research into the development of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in Britain tended to view seventies' feminism from the perspective of national conferences, the seven demands articulated by the WLM, and nationally organized campaigns. While these were all important developments in the history of the WLM, this article will argue for the importance of locating the struggles for liberation within the local context. Using the example of S…
Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 by Carol Giardina
Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity
Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics
This article considers the ways in which what Paul Gilroy terms 'epidermal thinking' operates in the discourses surrounding certain surveillance practices and their applications, with a focus on identification documents and biometric technologies in particular. My aim is not to re-ontologize race, but instead to outline the notion of digital epidermalization, stemming from Frantz Fanon's concept of epidermalization, as it allows for thinking thro…
Getting Carded: Border Control and the Politics of Canada's Permanent Resident Card
This article is concerned with the ways in which border control has been reconstituted through Canada's Permanent Resident Card (PRC). Some questions examined with this paper include: how did the PRC come to exist as a technology of border control? Does it function as a symbol of the Canadian nation-state's imperative to manage transnational movement and access to the geopolitical space of the nation and, if so, how? Through what means does the P…
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of tr…
Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics
This article considers the ways in which what Paul Gilroy terms 'epidermal thinking' operates in the discourses surrounding certain surveillance practices and their applications, with a focus on identification documents and biometric technologies in particular. My aim is not to re-ontologize race, but instead to outline the notion of digital epidermalization, stemming from Frantz Fanon's concept of epidermalization, as it allows for thinking thro…
Everybody's Got a Little Light Under the Sun: Black Luminosity and the Visual Culture of Surveillance
This article examines the production of The Book of Negroes during the British evacuation of New York in 1783 and situates it as the first government-issued document for state regulated migration between the United States and Canada that explicitly links corporeal identifiers to the right to travel. I do this to argue that the body made legible with the modern passport system has a history in the technologies of tracking blackness. I explore surv…
Getting Carded: Border Control and the Politics of Canada's Permanent Resident Card
This article is concerned with the ways in which border control has been reconstituted through Canada's Permanent Resident Card (PRC). Some questions examined with this paper include: how did the PRC come to exist as a technology of border control? Does it function as a symbol of the Canadian nation-state's imperative to manage transnational movement and access to the geopolitical space of the nation and, if so, how? Through what means does the P…
How are frames generated? Insights from the industry lobby against the sugar tax in Ireland
There is a causal link between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancers. Despite this, no country in the world has reduced its obesity levels because the factors that drive obesity continue unchanged (Swinburn et al., 2019). One systemic driver is corporate influence on the public policy process. The world's largest food and beverage manufacturers engage …
The Obamas and the New Politics of Race
Conversation: Surveillance / Environment / Nature / Sustainability
One of the key areas that surveillance studies has been conspicuously little involved in, with only a few exceptions (Donaldson and Wood, 2004; Donaldson 2012; Ottinger 2010; Haggerty and Trottier 2015; Archer 2021), has been the environment and nature. As it becomes increasingly obvious that the effects of the climate crisis are already with us, and with biodiversity loss accelerating, and the environmental justice issues associated with these c…
Capture, Illegibility, Necessity: A Conversation on Black Privacy
Dear Simone,Thinking through the concept, problematic, and potentiality of Black privacy requires me, in the first instance, to take the terms apart. In other words, before attending to privacy and
Race, Communities and Informers
Getting Carded: Border Control and the Politics of Canada's Permanent Resident Card
This article is concerned with the ways in which border control has been reconstituted through Canada's Permanent Resident Card (PRC). Some questions examined with this paper include: how did the PRC come to exist as a technology of border control? Does it function as a symbol of the Canadian nation-state's imperative to manage transnational movement and access to the geopolitical space of the nation and, if so, how? Through what means does the P…
Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics
This article considers the ways in which what Paul Gilroy terms 'epidermal thinking' operates in the discourses surrounding certain surveillance practices and their applications, with a focus on identification documents and biometric technologies in particular. My aim is not to re-ontologize race, but instead to outline the notion of digital epidermalization, stemming from Frantz Fanon's concept of epidermalization, as it allows for thinking thro…
A Veritable Hotbed of Feminism: Women's Liberation in St Andrews, Scotland, c.1968-c.1979
Early research into the development of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in Britain tended to view seventies' feminism from the perspective of national conferences, the seven demands articulated by the WLM, and nationally organized campaigns. While these were all important developments in the history of the WLM, this article will argue for the importance of locating the struggles for liberation within the local context. Using the example of S…
Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 by Carol Giardina
Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity
The Obamas and the New Politics of Race
Everybody's Got a Little Light Under the Sun: Black Luminosity and the Visual Culture of Surveillance
This article examines the production of The Book of Negroes during the British evacuation of New York in 1783 and situates it as the first government-issued document for state regulated migration between the United States and Canada that explicitly links corporeal identifiers to the right to travel. I do this to argue that the body made legible with the modern passport system has a history in the technologies of tracking blackness. I explore surv…
Race and surveillance
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of tr…
Race, Communities and Informers
How are frames generated? Insights from the industry lobby against the sugar tax in Ireland
There is a causal link between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancers. Despite this, no country in the world has reduced its obesity levels because the factors that drive obesity continue unchanged (Swinburn et al., 2019). One systemic driver is corporate influence on the public policy process. The world's largest food and beverage manufacturers engage …
Obesity, public health ethics and the nanny state
Unhealthy dietary patterns are an important contributor to obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). As with any public health challenge, as well as providing care to affected individuals, whole-population interventions are required to mitigate the environmental determinants of population dietary patterns. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has established recommendations, including a set of low-cost, high-impact ‘best buys’ for gove…
Capture, Illegibility, Necessity: A Conversation on Black Privacy
Dear Simone,Thinking through the concept, problematic, and potentiality of Black privacy requires me, in the first instance, to take the terms apart. In other words, before attending to privacy and
Conversation: Surveillance / Environment / Nature / Sustainability
One of the key areas that surveillance studies has been conspicuously little involved in, with only a few exceptions (Donaldson and Wood, 2004; Donaldson 2012; Ottinger 2010; Haggerty and Trottier 2015; Archer 2021), has been the environment and nature. As it becomes increasingly obvious that the effects of the climate crisis are already with us, and with biodiversity loss accelerating, and the environmental justice issues associated with these c…
Food industry degrowth as a public health strategy: The case of ultra processed baked goods
Evidence associates ultra-processed food and beverage (UPF) diets to diverse non-communicable diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health disorders. Efforts to reformulate by reducing salt, sugar and unhealthy fats in such foods, have not changed the fact that UPFs are an increasing proportion of population diets. The UPF industry is rooted in growth – a fundamental logic at the heart of publicly traded and for…
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