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OverviewThe use of secret police, security agencies and informers to spy on, disrupt and undermine opposition to the dominant political and economic order has a long history. This book reflects on the surveillance, harassment and infiltration that pervades the lives of activists, organisations and movements that are labelled as 'threats to national security'. Activists and scholars from the UK, South Africa, Canada, the US, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand expose disturbing stories of political policing to question what lies beneath state surveillance. Problematising the social amnesia that exists within progressive political networks and supposed liberal democracies, Activists and the Surveillance State shows that ultimately, movements can learn from their own repression, developing a critical and complex understanding of the nature of states, capital and democracy today that can inform the struggles of tomorrow. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aziz Choudry , Salim VallyPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Weight: 0.335kg ISBN: 9780745337807ISBN 10: 0745337805 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 14 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I 1. Lessons Learnt, Lessons Lost: Pedagogies of Repression, Thoughtcrime, and the Sharp Edge of State Power - Aziz Choudry 2. The Surveillance State: A Composition in Four Movements - Radha D’Souza 3. Activist Learning and State Dataveillance: Lessons from the UK, Mauritius and South Africa - Jane Duncan Part II 4. Coming of Age Under Surveillance: South Asian, Arab and Afghan American Youth and Post-9/11 Activism - Sunaina Maira 5. ASIO and the Australia–Timor-Leste Solidarity Movement, 1974–79 - Bob Boughton 6. The Plantation-to-Plant-to-Prison Pipeline: David Austin Interviewed by Aziz Choudry 7. Forgetting National Security in ‘Canada’: Towards Pedagogies of Resistance - Gary Kinsman 8. Prevent as Far-Right Trojan Horse: The Creeping Radicalisation of the UK National Security Complex - Nafeez Ahmed 9. Political Policing in the UK: A Personal Perspective - Emily Apple 10. Spies Wide Shut: Responses and Resistance to the National Security State in Aotearoa New Zealand - Valerie Morse Part III 11. Undercover Research: Academics, Activists and Others Investigate Political Policing - Eveline Lubbers Notes on Contributors IndexReviews'Activists and the Surveillance State is a wide-ranging exploration of collective organizing in response to state and corporate surveillance. The book's rich discussion of what movements have learned - and failed to learn - about how surveillance works makes it a crucial reference for scholars and activists alike' -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming' Author InformationAziz Choudry was Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT), University of Johannesburg. He is editor of The University and Social Justice, Activists and the Surveillance State and Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today (Pluto, 2020, 2019, 2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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