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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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Report: Researchers’ Workshop 2021

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

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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

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