Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age - Precarious Coalitions, Contested Knowledge, Diverse Opposition to

Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age provides an in-depth examination of the complexity and diversity of organised opposition to increasing state surveillance powers in the UK.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. State surveillance in the digital age: Justifications for ever-increasing data collection
3. Resistance: A conceptual framework for understanding opposition to surveillance
4. Identifying an 'assemblage of resistance': Mapping a landscape of diverse actors in opposition to surveillance
5. Knowing what (not) to know: Strategies of knowledge and ignorance in the construction of resistance and counter-resistance to surveillance
6. Framing resistance to mass-surveillance: Resistant discourses, intertwining voices, and the challenge of articulating harm
7. Conclusion: Future resistance to surveillance

About the author

Amy Stevens, PhD is a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research interests are broadly focused on the use and development of new surveillance technologies and their governance. In particular, she focuses on the use of data and new technologies for investigating and detecting crime, understanding resistance and opposition to their use, and the human rights and social justice issues which surround them.

Product details

• Authors: Amy (University of Sheffield Stevens, Stevens Amy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032285467
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228546-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Studies in Surveillance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Criminal law & procedure, computer science, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Social issues & processes, Politics and government, Legal aspects of criminology, Warfare and defence, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Privacy & data protection, Social Law, Intelligence & reasoning, Social and ethical issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Privacy and data protection, Legal aspects of IT, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy, Criminology: legal aspects, Data Protection Law, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Social law and Medical law