This special issue stages an encounter between surveillance studies and queer studies to reconsider the stakes of queerness in relation to monitoring, classification, and control. In doing so, we seek to expand the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with other marginalized identity categories within the dominant logics of surveillance. For us, "queer surveillance" names the power dynamic through which queerness is actualized as the necessary difference that adjudicates the bounds between normative and non-normative modes of embodiment, risk, and disposability. Ultimately, by assembling the range of articles in this issue, we hope to open lines of inquiry for future scholarship that traces the braided affiliations and antagonisms encompassed in the concept of queer surveillance. We also keep sight of the possibility of transforming current logics of state security and global power to magnify minoritarian life.
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Kafer et al. (2019) studied this question.