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.
Brunon-Ernst, Anne: - Anne Brunon-Ernst is Professor in Legal English at Paris Panthéon-Assas University, and researcher both at the Cersa (Panthéon-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'études 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 normativités (Hermann, 2018). Her current projects include investigating surveillance in the humanities, and Bentham's influence on the making of Australia.
Gligorijevic, Jelena: - 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.
Manderson, Desmond: - 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).
Wrobel, Claire: - "Claire Wrobel is Senior Lecturer in English in the Language Department at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and a member of VALE (Voix Anglophones, Littérature et Esthétique - Sorbonne Université). She is the author of Roman noir, réforme 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."
