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Schools Under
Surveillance
Price: $24.95
Subtitle: Cultures of
Control in Public Education
Edited
and with an
Introduction by Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres
Subject: Sociology,
Criminology
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4680-3
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4679-7
Pages: 264 pages
Publication Date: November 2009
Series:
Critical
Issues in Crime and Society
Praise for Schools Under Surveillance
"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
Description:
Schools 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 data—it is about the structuring of power relations through
human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. Essays cover a broad
range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus,
testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and
efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms
of surveillance in public education. Each contributor is committed to
the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of
surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class,
and gender.
About the Author:
TORIN MONAHAN is an associate professor of human and organizational
development at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development
and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is
the editor and author of several books, including Surveillance and Security: Technological
Politics and Power in Everyday Life.
RODOLFO D.
TORRES is a professor of political economy and urban studies at
the University of California, Irvine.
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