This article establishes the relevance of surveillance and secrecy as methodological tools, and it substantiates the argument that surveillance and secrecy are not oppositional in character, but overlap. It does so by drawing attention to obvious, but scholarly neglected performers of secrecy and surveillance: children. It discusses what it means to “work with” surveillance and secrecy as it develops their relevance in case studies involving children. As a contribution to cultural studies, the article shows how surveillance and secrecy “get to work” by tracing their constitutive character and by providing new angles for understanding points of contact between the two.

本文确立了监视和保密作为方法论工具的相关性，并证实了监视和保密在性质上不是对立的，而是重叠的论点。它通过引起人们对显而易见但学术上被忽视的保密和监视表演者的注意来做到这一点：儿童。它讨论了“处理”监视和保密意味着什么，因为它在涉及儿童的案例研究中发展了它们的相关性。作为对文化研究的贡献，这篇文章展示了监视和保密如何通过追踪它们的构成特征并为理解两者之间的联系点提供新的角度来“发挥作用”。