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Surveillance in the Global South Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Western discourses and practices and hopes to be a place for exchange, collaboration, and activism against the undemocratic use of surveillance technologies. Read more >>

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codastory Coda Story @codastory ·
31 Jan

What happens when companies sell high-tech surveillance tools to a government that’s known to carry out wide scale human rights abuses against its own people? Bruno fellow @AnnaCat_Brigida investigates how Honduras built a surveillance state.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/honduras-surveillance-drug-trade/

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jacobboersema Jacob Boersema @jacobboersema ·
24 Jan

The GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY is an awesome resource if you want to change your syllabus to being more global and inclusive and less canonical or US/EU focussed (its edited by @GKBhambra)
https://globalsocialtheory.org/

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ifip_94 IFIP Working Group 9.4 @ifip_94 ·
19 Jan

Doing research in AI and emerging technologies, in and beyond the #ICT4D context? Make sure you send an abstract to this exciting workshop! 👇👇 https://twitter.com/lauren_wbg/status/1615982495559831552

Lauren Waardenburg @Lauren_wbg

Stop whatever you're doing because @cristina_alaimo and I are organizing the workshop "AI and emerging technologies: Beyond the hype", taking place 11-12 May in Rome! Submit an abstract before Feb 28 (max 500 words, see below) and we hope to see you there! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PkDAxCvAHgsER2YdzmlN9IpvlDGj3H6j/view?usp=sharing
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Report: Researchers’ Workshop 2021

The network’s first Researchers’ Workshop was held on 23 August 2021. Read more here!

Blog

Last Call for Papers: Surveillance and the dossier

  • Azadeh Akbari
  • May 20, 2021

What constitutes a dossier? What are the historical continuities and discontinuities that frame the present political state of these surveillance-based files? (These files can private and public, commercial and governmental and are kept on citizens.) What is the role of the dossier in bureaucratic transactions and paperwork within today’s surveillance societies? What conceptual parallels can be drawn between new trends and well-tested mechanisms of surveillance-based political management, such as the dossier? How did the rise of smart technology and algorithmic intelligence provide a new impetus to the classic political tactic of ‘gathering dirt’ on targeted individuals? What is the role of the personal dossier in carrying out the strategies employed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, such as contact tracing, quarantine tracking, and immunity mapping?

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Latest Publications

The Platformness of Digital Identity Platforms

Masiero, Silvia. 2021. “Working Paper: The Platformness of Digital Identity Platforms.” Oslo: University of Oslo. https://t.co/AjRsXcdbjP?amp=1.

A ‘data realm’ for the Global South? Evidence from Indonesia

Jacqueline Hicks (2021) A ‘data realm’ for the Global South? Evidence from Indonesia, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1901570

Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test

Akbari A. 2021. ‘Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test.’ Surveillance & Society 19, Nr. 1: 98-103. doi: 10.24908/ss.v19i1.14545.

Covidiots as global acceleration of local surveillance practices

D. Trottier, Q. Huang & R. Gabdulhakov (2021). Covidiots as global acceleration of local surveillance practices. Surveillance & Society, 19 (1), 109-113. doi: 10.24908/ss.v19i1.14546

Biopolitical Violence and Waiting: Hotspot as a Biopolitical Borderzone

Topak, Ö. 2020. ‘Biopolitical Violence and Waiting: Hotspot as a Biopolitical Borderzone.’ Antipode 52, Nr. 6: 1857-1878. doi: 10.1111/anti.12676

Latest News

  • [surveillance_global_south] Call for nominations to the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) Board - Rosamunde Elise VAN BRAKEL
    on January 26, 2023
  • [surveillance_global_south] Solidarity, Surveillance and Data Structures Panel 2023 - "Madiha Tahir" (via surveillance_global_south Mailing List)
    on January 18, 2023
  • [surveillance_global_south] Infrastructural Surveillance Session at RightsCon 2023 - "\"Akbari, Azadeh\"" (via surveillance_global_south Mailing List)
    on January 12, 2023
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    on December 20, 2022

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