[News] Call for Abstracts- Surveillance in the Global South Researchers’ Workshop 2021

[Azadeh Akbari]

Surveillance in the Global South Research Network calls for abstracts 
for its first collaborative Researchers’ Workshop in September 2021. The 
network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include 
non-Western discourses and practices and hopes to be a place for 
exchange, collaboration, and activism against the undemocratic use of 
surveillance technologies.

We are aware that both ‘surveillance studies’ and the ‘global South’ are 
pretty broad categories. However, the workshop’s primary goal is to 
provide a discussion-oriented supportive environment to explore 
under-represented or neglected research areas, examine new research 
approaches and methodologies, and contribute to research/activist 
collaborations.

The workshop will be held in September 2021 (hosted and funded by 
Münster University) and consists of six 90-minute sessions organised 
around the topics mentioned in the below table. Each session is led by a 
more experienced researcher 
<https://surveillance-global-south.net/session-leaders-2021/>and has 
only three presenters (individuals or groups). The focus is on the 
discussions after the presentations, where the small group has enough 
time to engage meaningfully in providing others with feedback, comments, 
and ideas. There will be a final session with all participants, where we 
collectively discuss future plans and research directions.

Session Leader 	Affiliation 	Topic
Azadeh Akbari 	Academic Staff (Post-Doc), Political Geography Working 
Group, University of Münster 	Platform Surveillance
Chenai Chair 	Special Advisor for Africa Innovation at Mozilla 
Surveillance and gender
Shyam Krishna 	PhD Candidate, Digital Organisation and Society Research 
Centre, Royal Holloway University of London 	Workplace datafication and 
surveillance
Midori Ogasawara 	Assistant Professor, Department of SociologyUniversity 
of Victoria 	Surveillance & COVID-19
Ozgun Topak 	Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York 
University 	Surveillance and democracy
Keren Weitzberg 	Lecturer, History Department, University College London 
(UCL) and independent consultant 	Surveillance and humanitarian aid

Participants should send an abstract (300-400 words) to 
contact at surveillance-global-south.net by 27.06.2021. Please specify in 
which session you would like to present. Since the sessions are small 
and discussion-oriented, we would find a date and time in September 2021 
that fits the attendees’ schedules the best.

All participants are invited to write about their research, methodology, 
or collaborative experience in the network’s blog. We hope that the 
workshop paves the way for collaborative research and academic exchange 
and look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Azadeh on behalf of the Surveillance in the Global South Research Network

-- 
Azadeh Akbari, PhD. (she|her)
Academic Staff (Post-Doc)
University of Münster, Political Geography Working Group
Heisenbergstr. 2, 48149 Münster
Tel: +49 (0)251-83 33 696
a.akbari at uni-muenster.de
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Geographie/mitarbeiter/akbari.shtml
Latest Publication: "Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test". Surveillance & Society, 2021. doi: 10.24908/ss.v19i1.14545.
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