Activists and the Surveillance State

Aziz Choudry was Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT), University of Johannesburg. He is editor of The University and Social Justice, Activists and the Surveillance State and Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today (Pluto, 2020, 2019, 2016).

• AcknowledgementsPart I1. Lessons Learnt, Lessons Lost: Pedagogies of Repression, Thoughtcrime, and the Sharp Edge of State Power - Aziz Choudry2. The Surveillance State: A Composition in Four Movements - Radha D’Souza3. Activist Learning and State Dataveillance: Lessons from the UK, Mauritius and South Africa - Jane DuncanPart II4. Coming of Age Under Surveillance: South Asian, Arab and Afghan American Youth and Post-9/11 Activism - Sunaina Maira5. ASIO and the Australia–Timor-Leste Solidarity Movement, 1974–79 - Bob Boughton6. The Plantation-to-Plant-to-Prison Pipeline: David Austin Interviewed by Aziz Choudry7. Forgetting National Security in ‘Canada’: Towards Pedagogies of Resistance - Gary Kinsman 8. Prevent as Far-Right Trojan Horse: The Creeping Radicalisation of the UK National Security Complex - Nafeez Ahmed9. Political Policing in the UK: A Personal Perspective - Emily Apple10. Spies Wide Shut: Responses and Resistance to the National Security State in Aotearoa New Zealand - Valerie MorsePart III11. Undercover Research: Academics, Activists and Others Investigate Political Policing - Eveline LubbersNotes on ContributorsIndex

'Activists and the Surveillance State is a wide-ranging exploration of collective organising in response to state and corporate surveillance. The book's rich discussion of what movements have learned, and failed to learn, about how surveillance works makes it a crucial reference for scholars and activists alike'