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SUMMARY:Activists and the Surveillance State\, Nottingham
DESCRIPTION:\nAziz Choudry on Activists & the Surveillance State: Learning From Repression. He will be joined by Donal O’Driscoll of the Undercover Research Group. \nThe use of secret police and security agencies to disrupt and undermine political opposition to the prevailing social political and economic order has a long history. \nMany of today’s policing and state security policies\, practices and concepts have their antecedents in counter insurgency techniques in colonial regimes tested against earlier anti-colonial/independence struggles. \nSo too\, over time\, many forms of political dissent\, activism and social movements in liberal capitalist democracies have been constructed as ‘extremism’ and threats to ‘national security’. \nSome writings on surveillance reproduce an overdetermined sense that state repression inevitably only chills and crushes dissent. \nYet this is a partial understanding. There are\, and have always been people for whom state surveillance is not only an everyday part of life\, but also those who have resisted it in the course of struggles for liberation and social\, economic political and environmental justice. \nKey features in resistance to state spying and repression have been collective organising\, activist research and political education. This can break the isolation\, fear and alienation\, divide and rule strategies exercised by state power. \nThis presentation draws from his recent edited book\, Activists and the Surveillance State (Pluto\, 2019)\, which grapples with the social amnesia that sometimes exists within progressive political milieus and broader publics about the longer histories of ‘national security’ and political policing\, questioning these practices in and across ‘liberal democracies’ including Aotearoa/New Zealand\, Australia\, Canada\, South Africa\, the UK\, and the US. \nThis is a free student-led event. \nFor more information contact:\nGabriella.Cioce@Nottingham.ac.uk\nJoe.Kearsey@Nottingham.ac.uk \n\nShare this:FacebookTwitterTumblrEmailMoreLinkedInRedditPinterestPocketPrint
URL:http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/event/activists-and-the-surveillance-state-nottingham/
LOCATION:Nottingham University Business School\, Wollaton Road\, Nottingham\, NG8 1BB
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