Table of Contents

Series editor's foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction

Part one: Surveillance societies

Disappearing bodies
Invisible frameworks
Leaky containers

Part two: The spread of surveillance

Surveillant sorting in the city
Body parts and probes
Global dataflows

Part three: Surveillance scenarios

New directions in theory
The politics of surveillance
The future of surveillance
Bibliography
Index.

About the Author

David Lyon is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has held visiting positions at the University of Leeds, UK; Calvin College, USA; Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Monash University, Australia; Auckland University, New Zealand; the National University of Singapore; the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France; and the University of Tokyo, Japan. His work has been translated into over ten languages, and includes The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society (1994), and Postmodernity 2nd Edition (1999) also published by Open University Press.