Newcastle University

Introduction

Dr David Murakami Wood has left Newcastle and is now at Queen's University in Canada.

Funding

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Projects

• Cultures of Urban Surveillance
  Project Leader(s): Dr. David Murakami-Wood
  In global cities, everyday life is subject to multiple forms of surveillance and a 'surveillance society' is said to be emerging. This project examines the forms of, and responses to, this surveillance society in four major cities.
• Social Platform on Cities and Social Cohesion (Social Polis)
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Jean Hillier; Prof. Frank Moulaert
• The Everyday Life of Surveillance
  Project Leader(s): David Murakami Wood
  An ESRC Seminar Series, which aims to discuss what living in a society in which surveillance is normal means for individuals, workplaces, homes, cities, and society

• Coaffee J, Murakami Wood D, Rogers P. The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• Murakami Wood D. The 'Surveillance Society': Questions of History, Place and Culture. European Journal of Criminology 2009, 44(2), 179-194.
• Murakami Wood D. Surveillance. In: Hutchison, R, ed. Encylopedia of Urban Studies. London: Sage, 2010.
• Murakami Wood D, Lyon D, Abe K. Surveillance in urban Japan: A critical introduction. Urban Studies 2007, 44(3), 551-568.
• Murakami Wood D. Beyond the Panopticon? Foucault and Surveillance Studies. In: Crampton, JW; Elden, S, ed. Space, Knowledge and Power : Foucault and Geography. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp.245-263.
• Murakami Wood D, Ball K, Graham S, Lyon D, Norris C, Raab C. A Report on the Surveillance Society : For the Information Commissioner by the Surveillance Studies Network. Wilmslow, UK: Office of the Information Commissioner, 2006.
• Murakami Wood D. Spies in the Information Economy: Academic Publishers and the Trade in Personal Information. ACME 2009, 8(3), 484-493.
• Murakami Wood D. Towards Spatial Protocol? The Topologies of the Ubiquitous Surveillance Society. In: Alessandro Aurigi and Fiorella di Cindio, ed. Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.93-106.
• Donaldson A, Murakami Wood D. Avian influenza and events in political biogeography. Area 2008, 40(1), 128-130.
• Murakami Wood D, Coaffee J. Lockdown! Resilience, Resurgence and the Stage-set City. In: Atkinson, R; Helms, G, ed. Securing an Urban Renaissance: Crime, Community and British Urban Policy. Bristol: Policy Press, 2007, pp.91-106.
• Coaffee J, Murakami Wood D. Terrorism and Surveillance. In: Hall, T; Hubbard, P; Short, JR, ed. The SAGE Companion to the City. London: Sage, 2008, pp.352-372.
• Murakami Wood D, Graham S. Permeable Boundaries in the Software-sorted Society: Surveillance and the Differentiation of Mobility. In: Shellar M; Urry J, ed. Mobile Technologies of the City. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.177-191.
• Coaffee J, Murakami Wood D. Security is Coming Home: Rethinking Scale and Constructing Resilience in the Global Urban Response to Terrorist Risk. International Relations 2006, 20(4), 503-517.
• Introna L, Wood D. Picturing Algorithmic Surveillance: The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems. Surveillance & Society 2004, 2(2/3), 177-198.
• Donaldson A, Wood D. Surveilling strange materialities: Categorisation in the evolving geographies of FMD biosecurity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2004, 22(3), 373-391.
• Graham S, Wood D. Digitizing surveillance: Categorization, space, inequality. Critical Social Policy 2003, 23(2), 227-248.
• Wood D, Konvitz E, Ball K. The Constant State of Emergency: Surveillance after 9/11. In: Ball, K., Webster, F, ed. The Intensification of Surveillance: Crime, Terrorism and Warfare in the Information Age. London, UK: Pluto Press, 2003, pp.137-168.
• Wood D. The automation of surveillance and the politics of code: militarization, modernization or myth?. In: Under Surveillance Seminar, Oeiras Image Festival. 2004, Oeiras, Portugal.
• Wood D, Coaffee J. The everyday militarization of the City: security and surveillance in London's financial heartlands. In: Royal Geographical Society & the Institute of British Geographers Conference. 2003, London, UK.
• Wood D. Intruder in the Uplands: the Contested Landscape of Menwith Hill. In: Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers Conference. 2002, Belfast.
• Wood D. Panoptic prophecies: visions of surveillance in science fiction writing. In: Technotopias: Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures. 2002, University of Stratyclyde.
• Wood D. Technology, Territory and Transgression: Algorithmic Surveillance in Public Spaces and the Displacement of Politics. In: Transforming Spaces: The Topological Turn in Technology Studies. 2002, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
• Wood D. Algorithmic Surveillance and Social Exclusion: An agenda for research. In: New Technologies and Social Welfare. 2001, University of Nottingham.