Overview

The 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.

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Author:   Aziz Choudry ,  Salim Vally
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Weight:   0.335kg
ISBN:  

9780745337807

ISBN 10:   0745337805
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 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 Index

Reviews

'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 Information

Aziz 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).

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