[Commlist] New book: National Security Surveillance in Southern Africa: An Anti-Capitalist Perspective

Jane Duncan is happy to announce that my new book has been published by 
Zed Books. It is called National Security Surveillance in Southern 
Africa: An Anti-Capitalist Perspective. The book is available 
here:https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/national-security-surveillance-in-southern-africa-9780755640225/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/national-security-surveillance-in-southern-africa-9780755640225/>

It has been published as a hardback and an e-book, and the softback and 
open access editions will follow.

A description is below:


  National Security Surveillance in Southern Africa


      An Anti-Capitalist Perspective


          Jane Duncan (Author)
          <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/jane-duncan/>


*Description*

In spite of Edward Snowden's disclosures about government abuses of 
dragnet communication surveillance, the surveillance industry continues 
to expand around the world. Many people have become resigned to a world 
where they cannot have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The author looks at what can be done to rein in these powers and 
restructure how they are used beyond the limited and often ineffective 
reforms that have been attempted. Using southern Africa as a backdrop, 
and its liberation history, Jane Duncan examines what an anti-capitalist 
perspective on intelligence and security powers could look like. Are the 
police and intelligence agencies even needed, and if so, what should 
they do and why? What lessons can be learnt from how security was 
organised during the struggles for liberation in the region?

Southern Africa is seeing thousands of people in the region taking to 
the streets in protests. In response, governments are scrambling to 
acquire surveillance technologies to monitor these new protest 
movements. Southern Africa faces no major terrorism threats at the 
moment, which should make it easier to develop clearer anti-surveillance 
campaigns than in Europe or the US. Yet, because of tactical and 
strategic ambivalence about security powers, movements often engage in 
limited calls for intelligence and policing reforms, and fail to provide 
an alternative vision for policing and intelligence. /Surveillance and 
Intelligence in Southern Africa/ examines what that vision could look like.

*Table of Contents*

*Chapter One: The Global Conveyer Belt of Security Practices
Chapter Two: Intelligence and Security in Southern Africa
Chapter Three: Lawful Interception, Targeting and Social Control
Chapter Four: Signals Intelligence and National Security
Chapter Five: The Global Trade in Spyware
Chapter Six: Police as Spies: Intelligence-led Policing and 
Securitisation of Policing
Chapter Seven: Us and Them: Securitising Home Affairs
Chapter Eight: Doing Surveillance Differently? BRICS and Surveillance in 
Southern Africa*

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