Description
Book SynopsisSchools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their dataùit is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms.
Trade Review"After reading
Schools Under Surveillance one is forever impacted by the gripping ethnographic moments of multiple school contexts where surveillance is embodied and resisted. This book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, psychology and education interested in the issues of social control, culture, power and resistance in schools." * Contemporary Sociology *
"A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms,
Schools Under Surveillance represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike." -- Henry Pontell * University of California, Irvine *
"A thought-provoking anthology." * H-Education *
"This volume's interdisciplinarity makes the collection a provocative and stimulating reflection on cultures of control but also provides a brilliant overview of creative forms of resistance." * Surveillance and Society *
"Schools under Surveillance raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes." -- William G. Staples * author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life *
"After reading
Schools Under Surveillance one is forever impacted by the gripping ethnographic moments of multiple school contexts where surveillance is embodied and resisted. This book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, psychology and education interested in the issues of social control, culture, power and resistance in schools." * Contemporary Sociology *
"A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms,
Schools Under Surveillance represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike." -- Henry Pontell * University of California, Irvine *
"A thought-provoking anthology." * H-Education *
"This volume's interdisciplinarity makes the collection a provocative and stimulating reflection on cultures of control but also provides a brilliant overview of creative forms of resistance." * Surveillance and Society *
"Schools under Surveillance raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes." -- William G. Staples * author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I New Disciplinary Orders To Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public Schools
School Surveillance in America
The Docile Body in School Space
Part II Schools as Markets Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society
Online Surveillance in Canadian Schools
"School Ownership is the Goal"
Part III Security Cultures Reading, Writing and Readiness
Risky Youth and the Psychology of Surveillance
Part IV Accountability Regimes "Politics by Other Means"
The Measure of Success
Lying, Cheating and Teaching to the Test
Part V Everyday Resistance Scan This
Seductions of Risk, Social Control and Resistance to School Surveillance
