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SUMMARY:Activists & The Surveillance State\, Manchester
DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor Aziz Choudry from McGill University in Canada talks about his newly edited book Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning From Repression. \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 new book 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. \nIn order to discuss his new book\, Dr Choudry will be joined by one of the book’s authors\, Dr Radha D’Souza (University of Westminster)\, and long-standing member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project\, Dr Waqas Tufail (Leeds Beckett University). \nEntry is free but booking a place is advised. \nThe event is hosted by the Northern Police Monitoring Project. \nShare this:FacebookTwitterTumblrEmailMoreLinkedInRedditPinterestPocketPrint
URL:http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/event/activists-the-surveillance-state-manchester/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre A\, University Place\, 176 Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M13 9PL
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