Supervision : on motherhood and surveillance / edited by Sophie Hamacher with Jessica Hankey.

Date:
[2023]
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Description

"A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood. The tracking of our personal information, activities, and medical data through our digital devices is an increasingly recognizable field in which the lines between caretaking and control have blurred. In this age of surveillance, mothers' behaviors and bodies are observed, made public, exposed, scrutinized, and policed like never before. Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance gathers together the work of fifty contributors from diverse disciplines that include the visual arts, legal scholarship, ethnic studies, sociology, gender studies, poetry, and activism to ask what the relationship is between how we watch and how we are watched, and how the attention that mothers pay to their children might foster a kind of counterattention to the many ways in which mothers are scrutinized. A groundbreaking collection, Supervision is a project about vision (and supervision), and all the ways in which vision intersects with surveillance and politics, through motherhood and personal history as well as through the histories and relations of the societies in which we live" -- Publisher's description.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press : Orbis Editions, [2023]

Physical description

195 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm

Contributors

Contents

Preface / Sophie Hamacher -- Introduction -- A conversation with Lisbeth Kaiser and Erika Niwa -- Her internet / Jennifer Hayashida -- We stand in the gray spring light / Jennifer Hayashida -- A conversation with Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann -- Family scanning / Hannah Zeavin -- A conversation with Moyra Davey -- A conversation with Jennifer C. Nash -- Film stills and Biometrics / Sophie Hamacher -- Policing the womb / Michele Goodwin -- A conversation with Irene Lusztig -- Keeping watch / Sarah Blackwood -- Maternal surveillance and the custodial camera / Lisa Cartwright -- ["Closed to traffic"] / Claudia Rankine -- A conversation with Melina Abdullah -- A conversation with Lauren Whaley -- A conversation with Jade Phoenix Martinez -- On disobedience / Mai'a Wlliams -- A conversation with Nurcan Atalan-Helicke -- The terrible two / Magdalena Kallenberger -- Drawing on the history of gestation and Hands and body parts / Sophie Hamacher -- Looking at our mothers / Iman Mersal -- The evanesced : embodied disappearance [Shifting spectators to witness] / Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle -- Mothering swells / Litia Perta -- Heavy swimmers / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- A conversation with Keeonna Harris -- Nel nome del Padre / Duae Collective (Silvia Campidelli, Luna Coppola) -- Body blitz / Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb -- A covnersation with Priscilla Ocen -- Mama Virtual / Jeny Amaya -- Watching her watching him / Kate Wolf -- A conversation with Caitlin Keliiaa and Stephanie Lumsden -- Afterword / Lily Gurton-Wachter -- Contributors.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

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    Awaiting cataloguing for Wellcome Collection

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ISBN

  • 0262047810
  • 9780262047814