| Description |
viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Lessons learnt, lessons lost: pedagogies of repression, thoughtcrime, and the sharp edge of state power / Aziz Choudry -- The surveillance state: a composition in four movements / Radha D'Souza -- Activist learning and state dataveillance: lessons from the UK, Mauritius and South Africa / Jane Duncan -- Coming of age under surveillance: South Asian, Arab and Afghan American youth and post-9/11 activism / Sunaina Maira -- ASIO and the Australia-Timor-Leste solidarity movement, 1974-79 / Bob Boughton -- The plantation-to-plant-to-prison pipeline / David Austin interviewed by Aziz Choudry -- Forgetting national security in 'Canada': towards pedagogies of resistance / Gary Kinsman -- Prevent as far-right Trojan horse: the creeping radicalisation of the UK national security complex / Nafeez Ahmed -- Political policing in the UK: a personal perspective / Emily Apple -- Spies wide shut: responses and resistance to the national security state in Aotearoa New Zealand / Valerie Morse -- Undercover research: academics, activists and others investigate political policing / Eveline Lubbers. |
| Summary |
Reflects on the surveillance, harassment and infiltration that pervades the lives of activists, organisations and movements that are labelled as 'threats to national security'. Contributors 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, the authors show 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. --From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Political activists -- Civil rights -- History.
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Political persecution.
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Political persecution. (OCoLC)fst01069448
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Choudry, A. A., editor, contributor.
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Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq, contributor.
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Austin, David, 1970- contributor.
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D'Souza, Radha, contributor.
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Duncan, Jane, contributor.
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Kinsman, Gary William, contributor.
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Lubbers, Eveline, contributor.
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Maira, Sunaina, 1969- contributor.
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Morse, Valerie, contributor.
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| ISBN |
0745337813 hardcover |
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9780745337814 hardcover |
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9780745337807 paperback |
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0745337805 paperback |
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