'You'll never walk alone': CCTV surveillance, order and neo-liberal rule in Liverpool city centre

This paper is concerned to chart the establishment and uses of CCTV within the location of Liverpool city centre. In doing this the paper seeks to con textualize CCTV within contemporary `partnership' approaches to regeneratio n which are reshaping the material and discursive form of the city. Thus CC TV schemes along with other security initiatives are understood as social o rdering strategies emanating from within locally powerful networks which ar e seeking to define and enact orderly regeneration projects. In focusing on the normative aspects of CCTV, the paper raises questions concerning the e fficacy of understanding contemporary forms of `social ordering practices' primarily in terms of technical rationalities while neglecting other, more material and ideological processes involved in the construction of social o rder.