This dissertation is a contribution to the ‘cultural turn’ in the multidisciplinary field of surveillance studies. Its objective is to advance knowledge about how surveillance is perceived as bodily, emotional, and multisensory experiences - explored and conceptualized here as ‘atmospheres of surveillance’. The overarching argument is that surveillance contains and co-produces atmospheres. The study is informed by the following research question: in what ways may the concept ‘atmospheres of surveillance’ contribute to our understanding of the embodied, multisensory experience of contemporary surveillance culture?