In spite of Edward Snowden’s disclosures about government abuses
of dragnet communication surveillance, the surveillance industry
continues to expand around the world. Many people have become
resigned to a world where they cannot have a reasonable expectation
of privacy. The author looks at what can be done to rein in these
powers and restructure how they are used beyond the limited and
often ineffective reforms that have been attempted. Using southern
Africa as a backdrop, and its liberation history, Jane Duncan
examines what an anti-capitalist perspective on intelligence and
security powers could look like. Are the police and intelligence
agencies even needed, and if so, what should they do and why? What
lessons can be learnt from how security was organised during the
struggles for liberation in the region? Southern Africa is seeing
thousands of people in the region taking to the streets in
protests. In response, governments are scrambling to acquire
surveillance technologies to monitor these new protest movements.
Southern Africa faces no major terrorism threats at the moment,
which should make it easier to develop clearer anti-surveillance
campaigns than in Europe or the US. Yet, because of tactical and
strategic ambivalence about security powers, movements often engage
in limited calls for intelligence and policing reforms, and fail to
provide an alternative vision for policing and intelligence.
Surveillance and Intelligence in Southern Africa examines what that
vision could look like.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Jane Duncan
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7556-4021-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-7556-4021-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780755640218 |
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