This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance. Ström traces the increasing levels of control wielded by the state, science and capital, and critically examines the social meaning and consequences of surveillance and globalization.

Timothy Erik Ström is based in Melbourne, where he is a resident academic at Arena, and teaches in RMIT University's School of Global Studies. He is a recent PhD from Western Sydney University's Institute for Culture and Society.