Feminist Media Studies· 2016Q1
Dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness
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Simone Browne's "Dark Matters" re-imagines surveillance studies by centering Blackness and its historical relationship with surveillance technologies and practices.
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Key points
- Re-imagines the theoretical framework of surveillance studies.
- Centers Blackness as a crucial lens for understanding surveillance.
- Examines the historical relationship between Black bodies and surveillance technologies.
- Proposes a new understanding of racialized surveillance practices.
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Abstract
In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: “how is the frame necessaril...
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