Simone Browne

"Surveillance as Social Regulation: Profiles and Profiling Technology" in Criminalization, Representation, Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, 251-284

What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is […]

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, […]

"Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics" in Critical Sociology, 36 (1),131-150