Genodicial Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis
We invite you to a new Law & Criminology Talk "Genodicial Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis" with Prof. Mais Qandeel and Prof. Özgün Topak, organised by the Crime & Society Research Group (CRiS) in the context of the Horizon Europe project Social Sciences 4 Democracy and the SRP-project Criminology of ‘the other’
Biographies
Prof Mais Qandeel, Associate Professor, International Law/Law and Technologies, Örebro University, Sweden. Dr. Mais Qandeel focuses on the use of new technologies and legal impacts on international law and leads the project ‘Digital Rights Protection in Palestine’
(2021-2025).
Prof Özgün Topak, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada. Özgün Topak specialises in surveillance, authoritarianism, migration, and human rights. He is Associate Editor of Surveillance & Society.
Abstract
Israel, the occupying power in Palestine, has been deploying various systems
of surveillance to gather communication, visual, biometric and other forms of
information on Palestinians’ lives. These systems include internet and social
media surveillance programs, spyware, facial recognition cameras, and
drones. The gathered information is being stored and integrated into big data
platforms that are powered by cloud computing technology and are harnessed
by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to create suspect profiles. Since
October 2023, Israel has been deploying these integrated surveillance
systems in its genocide campaign to enable, the increasingly automated,
destruction of Palestinians as a group and the infrastructure necessary for
their survival. Building on and contributing to the scholarship in critical
surveillance studies and socio-legal genocide studies, this paper advances the
concept of Genocidal Surveillant Assemblage (GSA).
Sandwiches will be provided, please RSVP before 21 May 2025: https://forms.office.com/e/hqdcv6037Q