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<aside> ✅ Want to study, work on or understand gendered surveillance at various levels? Well, this is your guide to making surveillance studies less intimidating.

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<aside> ✅ This resource list is aimed at early researchers who want to understand and learn surveillance societies and technologies. The curated starter guide is on feminist surveillance studies in the global south (Mostly Africa and South Asia).

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<aside> ✅ It is a sociological guide to technology research and studies. It helps you analyse disciplinary power from a gendered, ethnic and race lens.

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Okay, So where do we start?

AFFORDANCES - What do they mean?

<aside> ✨ You probably read of affordances in technology research and studies. These resources will help you understand what this concept really means.

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• The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman
• 'The Theory of Affordances', The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception - James Gibson
• Social Media Isn’t a Platform. So What Is It? - David Ryan Polgar

Theories on Discipline and Power - (Mostly Foucauldian Discourse Analysis)

✨ There are no surveillance studies without a critical analysis of disciplinary societies and power. Here are a few resources that should guide your research:

• Foucault goes to weight watchers - Cressida J. Heyes
• Changing the Subject: From Feminist Governmentality to Technologies of the (Feminist) Self - Srila Roy
• Discipline and Punish: Part 3: Chapters on Docile Bodies, the means of correct training and, Panopticism - Michel Foucault
• Foucault – Surveillance and Crime Control - Karl Thompson
• Feminism and the Final Foucault - Dianna Taylor & Karen Vintage