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ID781012
NAMEDavid Murakami Wood
GIVEN NAMESDavid Murakami
FAMILY NAMEWood
SIGNATUREWOOD D M
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University
ORCID0000-0003-1851-5400
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS288
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10
  • Something Changed? Imaginaries of Surveillance and (In)security in Transatlantic Science Fiction Novels in the Decade after 9/11

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2026

    Based on a formally sampled survey of 120 post-9/11 transatlantic science fiction (SF) novels in English published between 2002–2011 inclusive, and a thematic reading of thirty-eight of these works, this paper analyses the place and treatment of surveillance and security in the culture of Empire. The paper identifies several important post-9/11 interventions in SF and argues that, in comparison to some of the weak mainstream literary work on 9/11…

  • Total surveillance as a civilizational stage? Science-fiction, religion and the tech oligarchy

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Science as Culture•2026•References: 3

    In August 2020, the San Francisco Chronicle published an interview with Salesforce board member and longstanding Silicon Valley futurist, Peter Schwartz (Hartlaub 2020). In the interview, Schwartz ...

  • Only (dis)connect: Facing the intertwined (in)security of self, systems and society

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•First Monday•2025

    This paper asks a series of deliberately naive and provocative questions about cybersecurity in its sociotechnological contexts. Why connect? Can we, and indeed should we, continue to extend connections without thinking about insecurity? Who is made vulnerable and what is lost in connection? Who is responsible? What is to be done? This article considers these questions at different scales from the personal to the societal and argues that, in the …

  • Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism

    Open Access•Azadeh Akbari, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2025•Cited by: 1

    In this short piece, we suggest some directions for considering the interrelated questions of postcolonial authoritarianism, platform capitalism, and surveillance. We first put forward a three-level model of contemporary digital authoritarianism, which argues for a prism of discourses, practices, and infrastructures, before we turn specifically to the political economy of contemporary capitalism. Here, we shift the focus away from only either sta…

  • Conversation: Surveillance / Environment / Nature / Sustainability

    Open Access•Simone Browne, F Klauser et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    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…

  • Revitalizing Dissent: Imperatives for Critical Surveillance Inquiry

    Open Access•Torin Monahan, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2022•References: 6

    In this introduction to Surveillance & Society’s twentieth anniversary issue, we reflect on the journal’s role in the formation and maturation of the field and on some of the many areas in need of further study and intervention. In keeping with one of the journal’s original objectives of “encouraging debate and dissent,” we argue that it is imperative that the field reaffirm this dissenting posture. Such dissent would be primarily critical and de…

  • Culling the FLoC: Market forces, regulatory regimes and Google’s (mis)steps on the path away from targeted advertising1

    Open Access•David Eliot, David Murakami Wood et al.•ARTICLE•Information Polity•2022•References: 5

    This paper analyzes the short history of Google’s AI-driven data collation and marketing technology, Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), which was designed to replace third-party cookies, the technology at the heart of “surveillance capitalism.” Using publicly available data such as patents, investor calls, public filings, github accounts, and presentations, this paper explores FLoCs and its immediate replacements, The Topics API and FLEDGE, an…

  • Smart Surveillance

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Valerie Steeves•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 3

  • Partial Platforms and Oligoptic Surveillance in the Smart City

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Debra Mackinnon•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    Smart city technologies are proliferating in our urban environments. The latest iteration of the urban techno-fix, cities on a global level have begun piloting and plugging into a range of “smart” infrastructure and IoT, resulting in granular and even enactments of “the actually existing smart city.” Rather than evoking the once promised vision of the totalizing smart city, the adoption of these technologies draws attention to the fractured, vari…

  • Surveillance Capitalism: An Interview with Shoshana Zuboff

    Open Access•Shoshana Zuboff, Nina Möllers et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2019•Cited by: 2

    An interview with Shoshana Zuboff about her new book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

  • Condemned to connection? Network communitarianism in Mark Zuckerberg’s “Facebook Manifesto”

    Open Access•Karina Rider, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 7

    This article considers Mark Zuckerberg’s 2017 open letter titled “Building Global Community” as a political manifesto. Published just prior to an ongoing series of scandals involving Facebook and the misuse of customer data, the letter outlines Zuckerberg’s plans for the future direction of the company. Using an approach based on Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello’s connexionism, combined with Benjamin Bratton’s understanding of platforms and John B…

  • Surveillance Studies: A Reader

    Torin Monahan, David Murakami Wood•BOOK•Surveillance Studies•2018

  • The Global Turn to Authoritarianism and After

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 5

    This editorial introduces the special responsive issue on the global turn to authoritarianism. It points out the lack of any systematic political theory of the way in which authority and surveillance relate within Surveillance Studies and sketches some possible outlines for such a theory, that involves relationships between surveillance, democracy, authoritarianism, colonialism and capitalism. It argues that the contemporary turn to authoritarian…

  • The in(ter)visible subjects of security and the (im)possibility of a ‘public’

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2015•References: 7

    This short commentary argues that while Barnett’s critique of critical security and resilience studies needs to be made, the route suggested through the emphasis on ‘the public’ as the milieu of security lacks a necessary engagement with concepts of visibility and transparency. These concepts are used in Barnett’s piece very much in the same gestural way as he observes the critical security studies that he critiques

  • Before and After Snowden

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Steve Wright•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2015•Cited by: 4

    This editorial for the Surveillance and Security Intelligence After Snowden issue provides a very brief history of National Security Agency whistleblowers and investigations before Edward Snowden, and sets the current wave of NSA whistleblowing in the context of a growing demand for openness, transparency and accountability opposing the renewed closures and secrecy of the War on Terror. It also provides some links for further research and reading

  • What is global surveillance? Towards a relational political economy of the global surveillant assemblage

    David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2013•Cited by: 25•References: 25

  • Security, Surveillance, and Sociological Analysis

    Open Access•David Lyons, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    Sécurité et surveillance sont aujourd'hui une partie de l'expérience quotidienne banale d'une manière qu'ils n'ont pas été jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle. À juste titre, ils sont devenus plus importants sujets dans la sociologie, même si chacune a également suscité un intérêt multidisciplinaire depuis les années 1990, parfois sans référence à l'autre. Le contexte de ces initiatives et de leurs éléments qui se chevauchent et interagissent sont esqui…

  • New Urban Surveillance: Technology, Mobility, and Diversity in 21st Century Cities

    Open Access•Randy K Lippert, Randy Lippert et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Sometime near 2007 the world reached a 'watershed in human history'-the global urban population surpassed the rural Distinct from intimate towns and sprawling suburbs, cities are filled with strangers living in close proximity to one another Surveillance is a traditional element, perhaps even a defining feature of urban life In 21 st Century cities, this surveillance is intensifying and mutating as the strangeness and anonymity of urban life is e…

  • The Aesthetics of Control: Mega Events and Transformations in Japanese Urban Order

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Kiyoshi Abe•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2011•Cited by: 3•References: 30

    This paper examines the changing ‘style’ of urban order in Japan through the example of mega events, drawing on the architectural critique of Taro Igarashi and the historical sociological analysis of Masachi Ohsawa. It argues that construction for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was typical of a ‘concrete aesthetic’ that reflected a Japanese version of ‘control society’, at once modern and post-modern. Ironically, this period has since been re-imagined t…

  • Surveillance and Empowerment

    Open Access•Torin Monahan, David Phillips et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2010•Cited by: 11•References: 1

    This issue of Surveillance & Society examines the social implications of contemporary surveillance with a focus on the complexities of empowerment. Our purpose is not to stake a claim or chart a new course, but instead to recognize and encourage a mode of inquiry that has been emerging for some time

  • The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster

    Open Access•Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood et al.•BOOK•Everyday Resilience of the City•2009

    This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain. It argues that resilience is neithe

  • Living in Surveillance Societies: The Normalisation of Surveillance in Europe and the Threat of Britain’s Bad Example

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, William Webster•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2009•Cited by: 8•References: 18

    This article argues that surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised across Europe and that this is altering the landscape of liberty and security. It identifies this normalisation as a product of the globalisation of surveillance, the domestication of security, the desire of the European Union (EU) to create a distinct leading role in security, and the influence of the 'bad example' of the United Kingdom (UK). The article uses the two very …

  • A new 'baroque arsenal'? Surveillance in a global recession

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009•References: 1

    Britain's right-wing Daily Mail newspaper has long walked an uneasy line between populist tough-oncrime rhetoric and a more libertarian anti-big government and anti-snooping stance. Whilst it can hardly be accused of a sophisticated analysis, the paper sometimes stumbles on interesting developments, as it did in December 2008. It appeared that CCTV might be one of the first casualties of the global recession

  • An olive branch to Hier and Greenberg

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009

  • Situating Surveillance Studies. Sean Hier and Josh Greenberg's The Surveillance Studies Reader, and David Lyon's Surveillance Studies: An Overview

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 12

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  • Security is Coming Home: Rethinking Scale and Constructing Resilience in the Global Urban Response to Terrorist Risk

    Open Access•Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•International Relations•2006•Cited by: 42

    This article argues that contemporary security as a concept, practice and commodity is undergoing a rescaling, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, with previously international security concerns penetrating all levels of governance. Security is becoming more civic, urban, domestic and personal: security is coming home. In the context of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), asymmetric confl ict, the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘splinte…

  • Digitizing Surveillance: Categorization, Space, Inequality

    Open Access•Graham, Stephen Graham et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Social Policy•2003•Cited by: 42•References: 23

    In this article, we seek to add to current debates about surveillance and society by critically exploring the social implications of a new and emerging raft of surveillance practices: those that specifically surround digital techniques and technologies. The article has four parts. In the first, we outline the nature of digital surveillance and consider how it differs from other forms of surveillance. The second part of the article explores the in…

  • Surveilling Strange Materialities: Categorisation in the Evolving Geographies of FMD Biosecurity

    Open Access•Andrea Donaldson, Andrew Donaldson et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning D…•2004•Cited by: 41•References: 38

    The 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in the United Kingdom resulted in the popularisation of the concept of biosecurity. At its most basic, biosecurity refers to simple cleansing and disinfecting, but during the FMD epidemic it became associated with a powerful system of surveillance. We characterise surveillance as a thing in itself, a mode of ordering that can be added to others. The establishment and maintenance of categories are fun…

  • What is global surveillance? Towards a relational political economy of the global surveillant assemblage

    David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2013•Cited by: 25•References: 25

  • Picturing Algorithmic Surveillance: The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems

    Open Access•Lucas D Introna, Lucas Introna et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2002•Cited by: 21•References: 8

    This paper opens up for scrutiny the politics of algorithmic surveillance through an examination of Facial Recognition Systems (FRSs) in video surveillance, showing that seemingly mundane design decisions may have important political consequences that ought to be subject to scrutiny. It first focuses on the politics of technology and algorithmic surveillance systems in particular: considering the broad politics of technology; the nature of algori…

  • The `Surveillance Society: Questions of History, Place and Culture

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•European Journal of Criminology•2009•Cited by: 20

    The concept of the `surveillance society' has become a central part of the emerging transdisciplinary narrative of surveillance studies, and is now to be found as much in criminology as in many of the other domains upon which it draws. This piece takes on two key problems generated by contemporary use of the term `surveillance society'; those of its historical novelty and its general geographical or cultural generalizability. In this article, I s…

  • Foucault and Panopticism Revisited

    Open Access•David Wood, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2002•Cited by: 14•References: 2

    This editorial introduces this issue in the context of the progress of the Surveillance and Society project. It discusses the theme of this issue, the importance of Michel Foucault’s work for Surveillance Studies, briefly summarises the contributions of the authors, and also considers what comes next

  • Partial Platforms and Oligoptic Surveillance in the Smart City

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Debra Mackinnon•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    Smart city technologies are proliferating in our urban environments. The latest iteration of the urban techno-fix, cities on a global level have begun piloting and plugging into a range of “smart” infrastructure and IoT, resulting in granular and even enactments of “the actually existing smart city.” Rather than evoking the once promised vision of the totalizing smart city, the adoption of these technologies draws attention to the fractured, vari…

  • Surveillance and Empowerment

    Open Access•Torin Monahan, David Phillips et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2010•Cited by: 11•References: 1

    This issue of Surveillance & Society examines the social implications of contemporary surveillance with a focus on the complexities of empowerment. Our purpose is not to stake a claim or chart a new course, but instead to recognize and encourage a mode of inquiry that has been emerging for some time

  • Condemned to connection? Network communitarianism in Mark Zuckerberg’s “Facebook Manifesto”

    Open Access•Karina Rider, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 7

    This article considers Mark Zuckerberg’s 2017 open letter titled “Building Global Community” as a political manifesto. Published just prior to an ongoing series of scandals involving Facebook and the misuse of customer data, the letter outlines Zuckerberg’s plans for the future direction of the company. Using an approach based on Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello’s connexionism, combined with Benjamin Bratton’s understanding of platforms and John B…

  • The Global Turn to Authoritarianism and After

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 5

    This editorial introduces the special responsive issue on the global turn to authoritarianism. It points out the lack of any systematic political theory of the way in which authority and surveillance relate within Surveillance Studies and sketches some possible outlines for such a theory, that involves relationships between surveillance, democracy, authoritarianism, colonialism and capitalism. It argues that the contemporary turn to authoritarian…

  • Living in Surveillance Societies: The Normalisation of Surveillance in Europe and the Threat of Britain’s Bad Example

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, William Webster•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2009•Cited by: 8•References: 18

    This article argues that surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised across Europe and that this is altering the landscape of liberty and security. It identifies this normalisation as a product of the globalisation of surveillance, the domestication of security, the desire of the European Union (EU) to create a distinct leading role in security, and the influence of the 'bad example' of the United Kingdom (UK). The article uses the two very …

  • Surveillance in Urban Japan: A Critical Introduction

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, David Lyon et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2007•Cited by: 8•References: 27

    This paper provides a critical introduction to the development of surveillance in the Japanese city. Adapting the analytical scheme of understanding, intensifying, automating, integrating, globalising and resisting surveillance, it considers whether the historical and contemporary development of Japanese urban surveillance fits the narrative of Western surveillance studies. It shows that there are many interlinked and parallel evolutions, particu…

  • The Growth of CCTV: A global perspective on the international diffusion of video surveillance in publicly accessible space

    Open Access•Clive Norris, Mike McCahill et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2002•Cited by: 6•References: 19

    This editorial surveys the growth of video surveillance or Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) throughout the world, setting the scene for this special double issue of Surveillance and Society, on the politics and practice of CCTV, and provides a brief introduction to the contents of the issue

  • Before and After Snowden

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Steve Wright•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2015•Cited by: 4

    This editorial for the Surveillance and Security Intelligence After Snowden issue provides a very brief history of National Security Agency whistleblowers and investigations before Edward Snowden, and sets the current wave of NSA whistleblowing in the context of a growing demand for openness, transparency and accountability opposing the renewed closures and secrecy of the War on Terror. It also provides some links for further research and reading

  • The Aesthetics of Control: Mega Events and Transformations in Japanese Urban Order

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Kiyoshi Abe•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2011•Cited by: 3•References: 30

    This paper examines the changing ‘style’ of urban order in Japan through the example of mega events, drawing on the architectural critique of Taro Igarashi and the historical sociological analysis of Masachi Ohsawa. It argues that construction for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was typical of a ‘concrete aesthetic’ that reflected a Japanese version of ‘control society’, at once modern and post-modern. Ironically, this period has since been re-imagined t…

  • Surveillance Capitalism: An Interview with Shoshana Zuboff

    Open Access•Shoshana Zuboff, Nina Möllers et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2019•Cited by: 2

    An interview with Shoshana Zuboff about her new book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

  • Avian influenza and events in political biogeography

    Open Access•Andrea Donaldson, Andrew Donaldson et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 5

  • The international campaign against the multilateral agreement on investment: A test case for the future of globalisation

    David Wood, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Philosophy and Geography•2000•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    Written from the point of view of a campaigner against economic globalisation, this paper looks at the recent Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the campaign against it which eventually led to its demise. It looks at the nature of the diverse coalition of interests opposed to the MAI, and in particular their use of e‐mail and the Internet, and argues that the success of this campaign has lessons beyond the immediate victory over the f…

  • Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism

    Open Access•Azadeh Akbari, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2025•Cited by: 1

    In this short piece, we suggest some directions for considering the interrelated questions of postcolonial authoritarianism, platform capitalism, and surveillance. We first put forward a three-level model of contemporary digital authoritarianism, which argues for a prism of discourses, practices, and infrastructures, before we turn specifically to the political economy of contemporary capitalism. Here, we shift the focus away from only either sta…

  • Conversation: Surveillance / Environment / Nature / Sustainability

    Open Access•Simone Browne, F Klauser et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    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…

  • Smart Surveillance

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Valerie Steeves•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 3

  • Security, Surveillance, and Sociological Analysis

    Open Access•David Lyons, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    Sécurité et surveillance sont aujourd'hui une partie de l'expérience quotidienne banale d'une manière qu'ils n'ont pas été jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle. À juste titre, ils sont devenus plus importants sujets dans la sociologie, même si chacune a également suscité un intérêt multidisciplinaire depuis les années 1990, parfois sans référence à l'autre. Le contexte de ces initiatives et de leurs éléments qui se chevauchent et interagissent sont esqui…

  • New Urban Surveillance: Technology, Mobility, and Diversity in 21st Century Cities

    Open Access•Randy K Lippert, Randy Lippert et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Sometime near 2007 the world reached a 'watershed in human history'-the global urban population surpassed the rural Distinct from intimate towns and sprawling suburbs, cities are filled with strangers living in close proximity to one another Surveillance is a traditional element, perhaps even a defining feature of urban life In 21 st Century cities, this surveillance is intensifying and mutating as the strangeness and anonymity of urban life is e…

  • Situating Surveillance Studies. Sean Hier and Josh Greenberg's The Surveillance Studies Reader, and David Lyon's Surveillance Studies: An Overview

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 12

  • The International Campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: A Test Case for the Future of Globalisation

    David Wood, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Ethics Place & Environment•2000•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Written from the point of view of a campaigner against economic globalisation, this paper looks at the recent Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the campaign against it which eventually led to its demise. It looks at the nature of the diverse coalition of interests opposed to the MAI, and in particular their use of e-mail and the Internet, and argues that the success of this campaign has lessons beyond the immediate victory over the f…

  • The international campaign against the multilateral agreement on investment: A test case for the future of globalisation

    David Wood, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Philosophy and Geography•2000•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    Written from the point of view of a campaigner against economic globalisation, this paper looks at the recent Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the campaign against it which eventually led to its demise. It looks at the nature of the diverse coalition of interests opposed to the MAI, and in particular their use of e‐mail and the Internet, and argues that the success of this campaign has lessons beyond the immediate victory over the f…

  • People Watching People

    Open Access•David Wood, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2002•References: 7

    This editorial considers the issue of personal surveillance via Funder's Stasiland, the availability of surveillance services and technologies, and the culture of voyeurism in Japan, and introduces the articles in the 'People Watching People' issue

  • The Growth of CCTV: A global perspective on the international diffusion of video surveillance in publicly accessible space

    Open Access•Clive Norris, Mike McCahill et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2002•Cited by: 6•References: 19

    This editorial surveys the growth of video surveillance or Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) throughout the world, setting the scene for this special double issue of Surveillance and Society, on the politics and practice of CCTV, and provides a brief introduction to the contents of the issue

  • Picturing Algorithmic Surveillance: The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems

    Open Access•Lucas D Introna, Lucas Introna et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2002•Cited by: 21•References: 8

    This paper opens up for scrutiny the politics of algorithmic surveillance through an examination of Facial Recognition Systems (FRSs) in video surveillance, showing that seemingly mundane design decisions may have important political consequences that ought to be subject to scrutiny. It first focuses on the politics of technology and algorithmic surveillance systems in particular: considering the broad politics of technology; the nature of algori…

  • Foucault and Panopticism Revisited

    Open Access•David Wood, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2002•Cited by: 14•References: 2

    This editorial introduces this issue in the context of the progress of the Surveillance and Society project. It discusses the theme of this issue, the importance of Michel Foucault’s work for Surveillance Studies, briefly summarises the contributions of the authors, and also considers what comes next

  • Digitizing Surveillance: Categorization, Space, Inequality

    Open Access•Graham, Stephen Graham et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Social Policy•2003•Cited by: 42•References: 23

    In this article, we seek to add to current debates about surveillance and society by critically exploring the social implications of a new and emerging raft of surveillance practices: those that specifically surround digital techniques and technologies. The article has four parts. In the first, we outline the nature of digital surveillance and consider how it differs from other forms of surveillance. The second part of the article explores the in…

  • Surveilling Strange Materialities: Categorisation in the Evolving Geographies of FMD Biosecurity

    Open Access•Andrea Donaldson, Andrew Donaldson et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning D…•2004•Cited by: 41•References: 38

    The 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in the United Kingdom resulted in the popularisation of the concept of biosecurity. At its most basic, biosecurity refers to simple cleansing and disinfecting, but during the FMD epidemic it became associated with a powerful system of surveillance. We characterise surveillance as a thing in itself, a mode of ordering that can be added to others. The establishment and maintenance of categories are fun…

  • Security is Coming Home: Rethinking Scale and Constructing Resilience in the Global Urban Response to Terrorist Risk

    Open Access•Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•International Relations•2006•Cited by: 42

    This article argues that contemporary security as a concept, practice and commodity is undergoing a rescaling, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, with previously international security concerns penetrating all levels of governance. Security is becoming more civic, urban, domestic and personal: security is coming home. In the context of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), asymmetric confl ict, the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘splinte…

  • Surveillance in Urban Japan: A Critical Introduction

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, David Lyon et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2007•Cited by: 8•References: 27

    This paper provides a critical introduction to the development of surveillance in the Japanese city. Adapting the analytical scheme of understanding, intensifying, automating, integrating, globalising and resisting surveillance, it considers whether the historical and contemporary development of Japanese urban surveillance fits the narrative of Western surveillance studies. It shows that there are many interlinked and parallel evolutions, particu…

  • Avian influenza and events in political biogeography

    Open Access•Andrea Donaldson, Andrew Donaldson et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 5

  • The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster

    Open Access•Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood et al.•BOOK•Everyday Resilience of the City•2009

    This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain. It argues that resilience is neithe

  • Living in Surveillance Societies: The Normalisation of Surveillance in Europe and the Threat of Britain’s Bad Example

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, William Webster•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2009•Cited by: 8•References: 18

    This article argues that surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised across Europe and that this is altering the landscape of liberty and security. It identifies this normalisation as a product of the globalisation of surveillance, the domestication of security, the desire of the European Union (EU) to create a distinct leading role in security, and the influence of the 'bad example' of the United Kingdom (UK). The article uses the two very …

  • A new 'baroque arsenal'? Surveillance in a global recession

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009•References: 1

    Britain's right-wing Daily Mail newspaper has long walked an uneasy line between populist tough-oncrime rhetoric and a more libertarian anti-big government and anti-snooping stance. Whilst it can hardly be accused of a sophisticated analysis, the paper sometimes stumbles on interesting developments, as it did in December 2008. It appeared that CCTV might be one of the first casualties of the global recession

  • An olive branch to Hier and Greenberg

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009

  • Situating Surveillance Studies. Sean Hier and Josh Greenberg's The Surveillance Studies Reader, and David Lyon's Surveillance Studies: An Overview

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 12

  • Questions of Surveillance

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    The contents of this issue of Surveillance & Society, the first in our seventh volume, bring up a number of important questions for researchers working in the field, or indeed anyone interested in surveillance

  • The `Surveillance Society: Questions of History, Place and Culture

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•European Journal of Criminology•2009•Cited by: 20

    The concept of the `surveillance society' has become a central part of the emerging transdisciplinary narrative of surveillance studies, and is now to be found as much in criminology as in many of the other domains upon which it draws. This piece takes on two key problems generated by contemporary use of the term `surveillance society'; those of its historical novelty and its general geographical or cultural generalizability. In this article, I s…

  • Surveillance and Empowerment

    Open Access•Torin Monahan, David Phillips et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2010•Cited by: 11•References: 1

    This issue of Surveillance & Society examines the social implications of contemporary surveillance with a focus on the complexities of empowerment. Our purpose is not to stake a claim or chart a new course, but instead to recognize and encourage a mode of inquiry that has been emerging for some time

  • The Aesthetics of Control: Mega Events and Transformations in Japanese Urban Order

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Kiyoshi Abe•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2011•Cited by: 3•References: 30

    This paper examines the changing ‘style’ of urban order in Japan through the example of mega events, drawing on the architectural critique of Taro Igarashi and the historical sociological analysis of Masachi Ohsawa. It argues that construction for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was typical of a ‘concrete aesthetic’ that reflected a Japanese version of ‘control society’, at once modern and post-modern. Ironically, this period has since been re-imagined t…

  • Security, Surveillance, and Sociological Analysis

    Open Access•David Lyons, David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    Sécurité et surveillance sont aujourd'hui une partie de l'expérience quotidienne banale d'une manière qu'ils n'ont pas été jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle. À juste titre, ils sont devenus plus importants sujets dans la sociologie, même si chacune a également suscité un intérêt multidisciplinaire depuis les années 1990, parfois sans référence à l'autre. Le contexte de ces initiatives et de leurs éléments qui se chevauchent et interagissent sont esqui…

  • New Urban Surveillance: Technology, Mobility, and Diversity in 21st Century Cities

    Open Access•Randy K Lippert, Randy Lippert et al.•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2012•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Sometime near 2007 the world reached a 'watershed in human history'-the global urban population surpassed the rural Distinct from intimate towns and sprawling suburbs, cities are filled with strangers living in close proximity to one another Surveillance is a traditional element, perhaps even a defining feature of urban life In 21 st Century cities, this surveillance is intensifying and mutating as the strangeness and anonymity of urban life is e…

  • What is global surveillance? Towards a relational political economy of the global surveillant assemblage

    David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2013•Cited by: 25•References: 25

  • The in(ter)visible subjects of security and the (im)possibility of a ‘public’

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood•ARTICLE•Dialogues in Human Geography•2015•References: 7

    This short commentary argues that while Barnett’s critique of critical security and resilience studies needs to be made, the route suggested through the emphasis on ‘the public’ as the milieu of security lacks a necessary engagement with concepts of visibility and transparency. These concepts are used in Barnett’s piece very much in the same gestural way as he observes the critical security studies that he critiques

  • Before and After Snowden

    Open Access•David Murakami Wood, Steve Wright•ARTICLE•Surveillance & Society•2015•Cited by: 4

    This editorial for the Surveillance and Security Intelligence After Snowden issue provides a very brief history of National Security Agency whistleblowers and investigations before Edward Snowden, and sets the current wave of NSA whistleblowing in the context of a growing demand for openness, transparency and accountability opposing the renewed closures and secrecy of the War on Terror. It also provides some links for further research and reading

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