[Air-L] Call for papers: Special Issue of Surveillance & Society on Resisting Surveillance through Data Visibility and Invisibility

[NTusikov]

Hello everyone,

Please consider sending a paper to a special issue of Surveillance &
Society: *Resisting Surveillance through Data Visibility and
Invisibility *(papers
due 1 March 2025). I am one of the guest editors for this issue.
Building upon the critical theories of data feminism, data justice, and
data colonialism, amongst others, this special issue invites contributors
to reflect critically and creatively on the ideas of data visibility and
data invisibility (Taylor 2017). Topics may include (but are not limited
to) the following:

   - How might people disengage from data markets and/or work to correct,
   erase, or disrupt state or corporate datasets, such as the right to opt-out
   of discriminatory profiling programs?
   - What surveillance practices might enable certain populations to gain
   greater visibility to governments with the intention of enabling
   equity-seeking groups to access rights, services, and justice?
   - What resistance strategies may be undertaken to enable greater
   invisibility from state/corporate surveillance practices?
   - What creative sabotage might enable people to resist or disrupt
   governmental or corporate surveillance programs?
   - How might “data capitalism” be reformed or destabilized, such as by
   restricting the monetization of certain types of data?
   - How might social movements offer new or radical resistance to
   datafication practices by governments or corporations?
   - What collective practices might be designed to fairly share data’s
   social and economic benefits amongst the public?
   - How might community-led data collection practices help counter the
   informational and power asymmetries inherent in state and/or corporate
   surveillance practices?
   - What are the limits of individual- or community-based resistance to
   state and/or corporate surveillance practices?

*Submission Information*:
This special issue invites contributors from across the social sciences and
humanities to further develop the above-noted research projects. We welcome
submissions from both Global South and Global North perspectives, as well
as those that challenge colonial and western perspectives on
anti-surveillance strategies. We are also particularly interested in work
that centers the experiences and perspectives of historically marginalized
groups. We also welcome innovative or alternative methodologies or creative
expression.
Submissions will undergo a peer-review and revision process prior to
publication. Submissions should be original work, neither previously
published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere. All references
to previous work by contributors should be masked in the text (e.g.,
“Author, 2024”).
We anticipate publishing this issue in March 2026. All papers must be
submitted for consideration through the online submission system
<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/about/submissions>
no
later than *March 1, 2025.*
Please submit the papers in a MS Word-compatible format. For further
formatting information, please consult see the *Surveillance & Society
*submission
guidelines
<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/about/submissions>
.
For the *full call for papers*, see
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announcement/view/411
Kind regards,
Natasha Tusikov

Natasha Tusikov, PhD (she/her)

Associate Professor, Criminology Program

Department of Social Science

Ross South 714A

York University

4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Office: 416.736.2100 ext. 30158

ntusikov at yorku.ca

@NTusikov <ntusikov at yorku.ca>


*New book!* Haggart, B. and N. Tusikov (2023) *The New Knowledge:
Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power*. Lanham, Maryland:
Rowman & Littlefield. Open access ebook available at:
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538160879/The-New-Knowledge-Information-Data-and-the-Remaking-of-Global-Power

Haggart, B., Tusikov, N., and JA. Scholte, eds. (2021) *Power and Authority
in Internet Governance: Return of the State?* London: Routledge. Now
available open access!
https://www.routledge.com/Power-and-Authority-in-Internet-Governance-Return-of-the-State/Haggart-Tusikov-Scholte/p/book/9780367726621

Haggart, B., Henne, K., and  N. Tusikov. eds. (2019) *Information,
Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures
in the 21st Century*. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tusikov, N. (2017) *Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet*.
Oakland: University of California Press.