States of Surveillance: Ethnographies of New Technologies in Policing and Justice

Edited by Maya Avis, Daniel Marciniak and Maria Sapignoli

Part of the CRISP Edited Routledge Studies in Surveillance Book Series

Recent discussions on big data surveillance and artificial intelligence in governance have opened up an opportunity to think about the role of technology in the production of the knowledge states use to govern. The contributions in this volume examine the socio-technical assemblages that underpin the surveillance carried out by criminal justice institutions – particularly the digital tools that form the engine room of modern state bureaucracies.

Posted: October 9th 2024

Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age: Precarious Coalitions, Contested Knowledge, and Diverse Opposition to Mass-Surveillance in the UK

By Amy Stevens

Part of the Routledge Studies in Surveillance Book Series.

Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age provides an in-depth examination of the complexity and diversity of organised opposition to increasing state surveillance powers in the UK.

Taking the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act as a central case study and combining an analysis of publicly available commentary and campaign materials, with detailed expert interviews, this book provides a comprehensive mapping of organised opposition to state surveillance at a time of heightened debate.

Posted: August 12th 2024