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Information and communication technologies have transformed the
dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks
such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have
increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing
social movements throughout different parts of the world.
Concurrently, the same technologies have been taken up by public
authorities (including security agencies and the police) and have
been used as surveillance tools to monitor and suppress the
activities of certain demonstrators. This book explores the complex
and contradictory relationships between communication and
information technologies and social movements by drawing on
different case studies from around the world. The contributions
analyse how new communication and information technologies impact
the way protests are carried out and controlled in the current
information age. The authors focus on recent events that date from
the Arab Spring onwards and pose questions regarding the future of
protests, surveillance and digital landscapes.
Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions,
policies, and practices, making incarceration and
institutionalization dangerous – even deadly – for disabled
people. Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that
include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts,
prisons and alternatives to confinement. The contributors confront
challenging topics such as the pathologizing of difference as
deviance; eugenics and crime control; criminalization based on
biased physical and mental health approaches; and the role of
disability justice activism in contesting discrimination. This
provocative collection highlights how, with deeper understanding of
disability, we can challenge the practices of crime control and the
processes of criminalization.
Information and communication technologies have transformed the
dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks
such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have
increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing
social movements throughout different parts of the world.
Concurrently, the same technologies have been taken up by public
authorities (including security agencies and the police) and have
been used as surveillance tools to monitor and suppress the
activities of certain demonstrators. This book explores the complex
and contradictory relationships between communication and
information technologies and social movements by drawing on
different case studies from around the world. The contributions
analyse how new communication and information technologies impact
the way protests are carried out and controlled in the current
information age. The authors focus on recent events that date from
the Arab Spring onwards and pose questions regarding the future of
protests, surveillance and digital landscapes.
In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high
profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in
Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource
extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water
defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and
successfully slowed the rate of resource extraction. But their
success has also meant an increase in the surveillance and policing
of Indigenous peoples and their movements. In Policing Indigenous
Movements, Crosby and Monaghan use the Access to Information Act to
interrogate how policing and other security agencies have been
monitoring, cataloguing and working to silence Indigenous land
defenders and other opponents of extractive capitalism. Through an
examination of four prominent movements -- the long-standing
conflict involving the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the struggle
against the Northern Gateway Pipeline, the Idle No More movement
and the anti-fracking protests surrounding the Elsipogtog First
Nation -- this important book raises critical questions regarding
the expansion of the security apparatus, the normalization of
police surveillance targeting social movements, the relationship
between police and energy corporations, the criminalization of
dissent and threats to civil liberties and collective action in an
era of extractive capitalism and hyper surveillance. In one of the
most comprehensive accounts of contemporary government
surveillance, the authors vividly demonstrate that it is the norms
of settler colonialism that allow these movements to be classified
as national security threats and the growing network of policing,
governmental, and private agencies that comprise what they call the
security state.
Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions,
policies, and practices, making incarceration and
institutionalization dangerous - even deadly - for disabled people.
Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include
policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and
alternatives to confinement. The contributors confront challenging
topics such as the pathologizing of difference as deviance;
eugenics and crime control; criminalization based on biased
physical and mental health approaches; and the role of disability
justice activism in contesting discrimination. This provocative
collection highlights how, with deeper understanding of disability,
we can challenge the practices of crime control and the processes
of criminalization.
Canada is actively involved through various agencies in the
domestic affairs of countries in the Global South. Over time, these
practices - rationalized as a form of humanitarian assistance -
have become increasingly focused on enhancing regimes of
surveillance, policing, prisons, border control, and security
governance. Drawing on an array of previously classified materials
and interviews with security experts, Security Aid presents a
critical analysis of the securitization of humanitarian aid.
Jeffrey Monaghan demonstrates that, while Canadian humanitarian
assistance may be framed around altruistic ideals, these ideals are
subordinate to two overlapping objectives: the advancement of
Canada's strategic interests and the development of security states
in the "underdeveloped" world. Through case studies of the major
aid programs in Haiti, Libya, and Southeast Asia, Security Aid
provides a comprehensive analysis and reinterpretation of Canada's
foreign policy agenda and its role in global affairs.
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