Symposium

Sorting Daemons Symposium

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David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University. He is an urbanist, interested in the history, technologies, practices, ethics and cultures of surveillance. He is also concerned with ubiquitous computing, urban resilience to disaster, war and terrorism, and in international cross-cultural comparative studies of these and other urban developments, particularly in Japan and Brazil. He is a co-founder and Managing Editor of the international journal of surveillance studies, Surveillance & Society, and a co-founder and trustee of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN). He has been published in a wide range of academic journals including the European Journal of Criminology, International Relations, Society & Space and Urban Studies, and is currently writing two books: Global Surveillance Societies: New Spaces of Surveillance (Palgrave) and The Watched World: Globalization and Surveillance (Rowman &Littlefield).