Feminist Surveillance Studies
Rachel E. Dubrofsky is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
Shoshana Amielle Magnet is Associate Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race and the Technology of Identity, also published by Duke University Press.
Rachel E. Dubrofsky is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Surveillance of Women on Reality Television: Watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
Shoshana Amielle Magnet is Associate Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race and the Technology of Identity, also published by Duke University Press.
Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies
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Published:May 2015
Kevin Walby, Seantel Anaïs, 2015. "Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies", Feminist Surveillance Studies, Rachel E. Dubrofsky, Shoshana Amielle Magnet
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Scholars such as G. T. Marx have noted a “research methods gap” in social science–oriented approaches to surveillance studies. In this chapter, we argue that these questions about research methods are important for feminist surveillance studies scholars to reflect on. To illustrate some of the methodological as well as conceptual limits of surveillance studies, we briefly compare surveillance studies to policing studies, security studies, and intelligence studies. After raising these questions about the direction of surveillance studies and the “research methods gap” therein, we turn to a discussion of the feminist work of Dorothy Smith and her idea of institutional...
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