Big Brother is Watching You (Again)

Britain under Surveillance. Edited by Anja Müller-Wood.

This issue of the JSBC features a selection of five papers given at the 2011 conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz as well as eight book reviews. Apart from taking stock of the historical development, the growing ubiquity and the socio-cultural implications of surveillance in Britain, this volume also sets out to demonstrate and appreciate the inherent multi-disciplinarity of the scientific field of surveillance studies. Contents: A. Müller-Wood: Introduction. How Powerful is Big Brother? - B. Harbisher: The Bureaucratization of Dissent. Public Order and Protest in Modern Britain. - N. Böhm-Schnitker: From Public Opinion to the Big Society. Modulations of Surveillance in the (Neo-)Nineteenth Century. - J. Kneale: Surveying Pubs, Cities and Unfit Lives. Governmentality, Drink and Space in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain. - M. Krause: Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four. Contemporary Surveillance Narratives in England. - L. Krämer: Faultlines of Cinematic Voyeurism. CCTV in Andrea Arnold's "Red Road" (2006). - Reviews. 113 Seiten, broschiert (Journal for the Study of British Cultures; Vol. 19, No. 1 · 2012/Königshausen & Neumann 2013) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear