Surveillance produces anxieties, fear, suspicion
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UK: Penguin.
Lyon, D. (2003a). Surveillance after September 11. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Chan, J. (2008). The new lateral surveillance and a culture of suspicion. Sociology of Crime, Law
and Deviance, 10, 223–239.
emotion. An exception to this is Koskela’s paper entitled
“‘The Gaze without Eyes’: Video-Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban
Space” (2000), which discusses how forms of ambivalence, ambiguity, and contradiction
are aroused in relation to video surveillance. By attending to the spaces in which video
surveillance is instituted, she claims that it “changes the ways in which power is exercised,
modifies emotional experiences in urban space and affects the ways in which
‘reality’ is conceptualized and understood” (p. 243). She focuses on the kinds of feelings
and emotions that these spaces produce, claiming that “the variety of feelings surveillance
evokes is enormous: those being watched may feel guilty for no reason, embarrassed
or uneasy, irritated or angry, or fearful; they may also feel secure and safe” (p.
257). The institution of video surveillance is seen
UK: Penguin.
Lyon, D. (2003a). Surveillance after September 11. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Chan, J. (2008). The new lateral surveillance and a culture of suspicion. Sociology of Crime, Law
and Deviance, 10, 223–239.
emotion. An exception to this is Koskela’s paper entitled
“‘The Gaze without Eyes’: Video-Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban
Space” (2000), which discusses how forms of ambivalence, ambiguity, and contradiction
are aroused in relation to video surveillance. By attending to the spaces in which video
surveillance is instituted, she claims that it “changes the ways in which power is exercised,
modifies emotional experiences in urban space and affects the ways in which
‘reality’ is conceptualized and understood” (p. 243). She focuses on the kinds of feelings
and emotions that these spaces produce, claiming that “the variety of feelings surveillance
evokes is enormous: those being watched may feel guilty for no reason, embarrassed
or uneasy, irritated or angry, or fearful; they may also feel secure and safe” (p.
257). The institution of video surveillance is seen
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