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The growing sophistication of surveillance practices has given rise to concerns and discussions in the public sphere, but has also provided a popular theme in literature, film and the arts. Bringing together contributors across literary studies, law, philosophy, sociology, and politics, this book examines the use, evolution, legitimacy, and implications of surveillance. Drawing on a range of resources including literary texts, chapters explore key issues such as the use and legitimacy of surveillance to address a global health crisis, the role of surveillance in the experience of indigenous peoples in post-colonial societies, how surveillance interacts with gender race, ethnicity, and social class, and the interaction between technology, surveillance, and changing attitudes to expression. It shows how literature contributes innovative ways of thinking about the challenges posed by surveillance, how philosophy and sociology can help to correct biases and law and politics can offer new approaches to the legitimacy, use and implications of surveillance.

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Author:   Anne Brunon-Ernst (Professor in Legal English, Paris Panthéon-Assas University.) ,  Jelena Gligorijevic (Senior Lecturer in Law, Australian National University.) ,  Desmond Manderson (Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law Arts and the Humanities, Australian National University) ,  Claire Wrobel (Senior Lecturer in English in the Language Department, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Edition:   New in Paperback
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9781399505093

ISBN 10:   1399505092
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Watcher, Watching, Watched, Anne Brunon-Ernst, Jelena Gligorijević, Desmond Manderson and Claire Wrobel PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Surveillance and its Ambiguities, Philippe Sabot　 2. Surveillance, Utopia and Satire in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Alexis Tadié 3. Digital Technology during Times of Crisis – Risks to Society and Fundamental Rights, Yves Poullet　 4. Privacy as Liberty and Security: Implications for the Legitimacy of Governmental Surveillance, Jelena Gligorijević PART II: SPACES　 5. Panopticon as a Surveillance Model, Anne Brunon-Ernst　 6. Online Undercover Investigations and the Role of Private Third Parties, Peter Grabosky and Gregor Urbas 7. Space and Surveillance in Jonathan Raban’s novel Surveillance (2006), Aliette Ventéjoux 8. Safe Cities – The French Experience, Lucie Cluzel-Métayer　 PART III: CRITIQUE　 9. Black Futures Matter: Racial Foresight from the Slave Ship to Predictive Policing, Georgiana Banita　 10. Fear of the Dark: The Racialised Surveillance of Indigenous Peoples in Australia, Rachel Joy 11. Policing and Surveillance of the Margins: The Challenges of Homelessness in California, Yvonne-Marie Rogez　 12. Gender and Surveillance in Margaret Atwood's Novels, from Bodily Harm (1981) to The Testaments (2019), Claire Wrobel　 Index

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Anne Brunon-Ernst is Professor in Legal English at Paris Pantheon-Assas University, and researcher both at the Cersa (Pantheon-Assas) and at the Centre Bentham (ScPo Law School). Her research interests focus on the British legal philosopher Jeremy Bentham. She edits the Revue d'etudes benthamiennes. Her previous works include Le Panoptique des pauvres (PSN, 2007), Utilitarian Biopolitics (Pickering & Chatto, 2012, (ed.) Beyond Foucault (Ashgate, 2012), co-editing a special issue in History of European Ideas in 2017 and co-editing Nudges and normativites (Hermann, 2018). Her current projects include investigating surveillance in the humanities, and Bentham's influence on the making of Australia. Jelena Gligorijevic is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. She specialises in media law and constitutional law and theory, with a particular interest in privacy. Recent publications include 'Taming the 'chilling effect' of defamation law: English experience and implications for Australia' (2022) 50(2) Federal Law Review, 'A Common Law Tort of Interference with Privacy for Australia: Reaffirming ABC v Lenah Game Meats' (2021) 44(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal 673, 'Children's privacy: The Role of Parental Control and Consent' (2019) 19(2) Human Rights Law Review 201-229 and 'Privacy at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Law' [2019] Public Law 563-580. Desmond Manderson is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law Arts and the Humanities in the ANU College of Law & College of Arts and Social Sciences at Australian National University. His recent work pioneers the intersection of law and the visual arts, notably in Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies and Critique (2018); and Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts (2019). Claire Wrobel is Senior Lecturer in English in the Language Department at Paris- Pantheon-Assas University and a member of VALE (Voix Anglophones, Litterature et Esthetique - Sorbonne Universite). She is the author of Roman noir, reforme et surveillance en Angleterre (1764-1842); Gothique et Panoptique (Classiques Garnier, 2022) and has co-edited The Dark Sides of the Law: Perspectives on Law, Literature, and Justice in Common Law Countries (Michel Houdiard, 2019). She is working on the literary reception of Jeremy Bentham's thought and on surveillance in Anglo-American fiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as Law and Literature, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Erea or Sillages Critiques.

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