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).

Acknowledgements


Part I


1. Lessons Learnt, Lessons Lost: Pedagogies of Repression, Thoughtcrime, and the Sharp Edge of State Power - Aziz Choudry


2. The Surveillance State: A Composition in Four Movements - Radha D’Souza


3. Activist Learning and State Dataveillance: Lessons from the UK, Mauritius and South Africa - Jane Duncan


Part II


4. Coming of Age Under Surveillance: South Asian, Arab and Afghan American Youth and Post-9/11 Activism - Sunaina Maira


5. ASIO and the Australia–Timor-Leste Solidarity Movement, 1974–79 - Bob Boughton


6. The Plantation-to-Plant-to-Prison Pipeline: David Austin Interviewed by Aziz Choudry


7. 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 Ahmed


9. Political Policing in the UK: A Personal Perspective - Emily Apple


10. Spies Wide Shut: Responses and Resistance to the National Security State in Aotearoa New Zealand - Valerie Morse


Part III


11. Undercover Research: Academics, Activists and Others Investigate Political Policing - Eveline Lubbers


Notes on Contributors


Index