Schools Under Surveillance

TORIN MONAHAN is an associate professor of human and organizational development at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is the editor and author of several books, including Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life.RODOLFO D. TORRES is a professor of political economy and urban studies at the University of California, Irvine.

"After reading Schools Under Surveillance one is forever impacted by the gripping ethnographic moments of multiple school contexts where surveillance is embodied and resisted. This book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, psychology and education interested in the issues of social control, culture, power and resistance in schools." (Contemporary Sociology) "A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms, Schools Under Surveillance represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike." - Henry Pontell (University of California, Irvine) "A thought-provoking anthology." (H-Education) "This volume's interdisciplinarity makes the collection a provocative and stimulating reflection on cultures of control but also provides a brilliant overview of creative forms of resistance." (Surveillance and Society) "Schools under Surveillance raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes." - William G. Staples (author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life) "After reading Schools Under Surveillance one is forever impacted by the gripping ethnographic moments of multiple school contexts where surveillance is embodied and resisted. This book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, psychology and education interested in the issues of social control, culture, power and resistance in schools." (Contemporary Sociology) "A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms, Schools Under Surveillance represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike." - Henry Pontell (University of California, Irvine) "A thought-provoking anthology." (H-Education) "This volume's interdisciplinarity makes the collection a provocative and stimulating reflection on cultures of control but also provides a brilliant overview of creative forms of resistance." (Surveillance and Society) "Schools under Surveillance raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes." - William G. Staples (author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life)

• IntroductionPart I New Disciplinary OrdersTo Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public SchoolsSchool Surveillance in AmericaThe Docile Body in School SpacePart II Schools as MarketsSafety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist SocietyOnline Surveillance in Canadian Schools"School Ownership is the Goal"Part III Security CulturesReading, Writing and ReadinessRisky Youth and the Psychology of SurveillancePart IV Accountability Regimes"Politics by Other Means"The Measure of SuccessLying, Cheating and Teaching to the TestPart V Everyday ResistanceScan ThisSeductions of Risk, Social Control and Resistance to School Surveillance