Stopping The Spies: Constructing And Resisting The Surveillance State In South Africa

In this book, Jane Duncan assesses the relevance of Snowdens revelations for South Africa. In doing so she questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state. Duncan challenges members of civil society to be concerned about and to act on the ever-expanding surveillance capacities of the South African state. Is surveillance used for the democratic purpose of making people safer, or is it being used for the repressive purpose of social control, especially of those considered to be politically threatening to ruling interests? She explores the forms of collective action needed to ensure that unaccountable surveillance does not take place and examines what does and does not work when it comes to developing organised responses.

Softcover. English. Wits University Press. 2018. ISBN: 9781776142156. 312 pp. Good. Book No: 2504523