Rhythm and Vigilance

Ethnographies of Surveillance and Time
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4652-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Studies of surveillance have emphasised how technology is used to control space. This innovative collection examines how new monitoring technologies are also affecting the experience of time.

Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythm, the book brings together ethnographic research from Europe, China and the US, to show how digital monitoring is transforming spatio-temporal relations across the Global North.

As digital technologies continue to reshape the rhythms of life, this book makes a valuable contribution to both anthropology and surveillance studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peacock, Vita

Bruun, Mikkel Kenni

Elisabeth Dungey, Claire

Shapiro, Matan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Rhythm and Vigilance - Vita Peacock

Part I: Care and Wellbeing

Chapter 1: Watching Our Selves: Fitness and Mindfulness as Practices of Self-Monitoring in Britain - Mikkel Kenni Bruun

Chapter 2: “I don’t have time to watch everybody”: Location-Based Monitoring, Timescapes and Family Life in Germany - Claire Dungey

Chapter 3: Tinkering with Time and Technologies in Dementia Care - Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard, and Anders Albrechtslund

Part II: Real-Time Monitoring

Chapter 4: Divergent Temporal Dynamics and Time Work Among Delivery Workers in Denmark and Malta - Kalle Kusk

Chapter 5: Uncertain Times: Citizen app and Temporalities of Personalized Security in New York City - Alice McAlpine-Riddell

Chapter 6: Synchronizing Orbits and Deep Learning Algorithms: Satellite Surveillance and Civil Sea Rescue Missions in the Mediterranean - Andreas Stoiber

Chapter 7: Surveillance in Small Acts: Health Code Rituals during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Xiamen, China - Karolina Kupinska

Part III: Systems Past, Present and Future

Chapter 8: Privacy as Unfolding: German Netzpolitik and the Legacy of Colonial Registration - Vita Peacock

Chapter 9: Playtime: Monitoring and Surveillance in NFT Sociality - Matan Shapiro

Chapter 10: Growth’s Imagination: Startups and the Cruel Intimacy of the Internet’s Business Model - Lake Polan

Afterword: Watching, Waiting, Speculating - Sun-ha Hong

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabeth Dungey, Claire
Claire Dungey is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London.

Peacock, Vita
Vita Peacock is Research Associate at King’s College London and Principal Investigator on the Surveillance and Moral Community project, funded by the European Research Council.

Shapiro, Matan
Matan Shapiro is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London.

Bruun, Mikkel Kenni
Mikkel Kenni Bruun is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London.

Vita Peacock is Research Associate at King’s College London and Principal Investigator on the Surveillance and Moral Community project, funded by the European Research Council.

Mikkel Kenni Bruun is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.

Claire Elisabeth Dungey is Research Fellow at the University of Brighton.

Matan Shapiro is a freelance researcher.