Surveillant Movements: Policing and Spatial Production in East German Housing

This paper examines the Stasi’s housing district surveys as a particular genre of East German state surveillance and explores spatial modes strategies through which power operated in settlements. Analyzing ways secret police reproduced used built environment, I demonstrate that architecture both facilitated complicated methods surveillance, ultimately resisting panoptic aspirations power. thus argue Michel Foucault’s analysis Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, continues to be one leading models for interrogating relationship between does not fully elucidate practice efficacy GDR.