Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence

Thursday Feb. 29 // 19.30  pm - 21.30 pm // Plantage Doklaan 8-12// free of charge // vegan food served from 19:00 at Dokhuis Gallerie. Book launch event will be held in The Joinery space, next to the Dokzaal.

To our community resisting militarism, occupation, genocidal regimes, and systems of power and violence: join us for the launch Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence, a new collection of essays on the systems and technologies of surveillance, control, and violence behind oppressive border regimes around the world.

With an introduction from editor Mizue Aizeki.  Matt Mahmoudi and  Luke Naylor-Perott will share the research about ever-growing surveillance network which is entrenching the Israeli government’s control over Palestinians, and helps to maintain Israel’s system of apartheid, and Stop The War on Migrants will tell us more about how they use mapping connections of the military and border industrial complex as an activist tool

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In the name of “smart” borders, states like the U.K., the U.S., and Israel have increasingly turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory deployed against the Global South, across borderlands, routes of migration, and within their own borders. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centres, and more, all to more “efficiently” categorise and control human beings and their movement.

These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence from organisers, scholars, and journalists such as Harsha Walia, Ruha Benjamin, Marwa Fatafta, Arun Kundnani and many more shed light on this threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it.

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