Digital Surveillance in Africa - Power, Agency, and Rights

In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury''s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and practitioners map the development, procurement and (mis)use of the ever-expanding suite of digital surveillance and policing technologies across the continent. Drawing on the empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated research of the African Digital Rights Network, this book examines how public and private actors in Africa use spyware, mobile phone extraction, biometric and face recognition systems, and other technologies for smart-city and other social, and social-control, applications. Eight chapters examine eight African countries, and each of these begins with a thorough political history of the nature of surveillance there under colonial and post-liberation political settlements. This enables new analyses of the socio-cultural, political, and economic drivers and characteristics of contemporary digital surveillance in each country, all of which ultimately leads to concrete policy recommendations at local, national, and international levels. For its empirical richness and breadth, as well as its theoretical sophistication, Digital Surveillance in Africa is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary African studies, and it is of keen interest to anyone concerned with how digital surveillance affects everyday lives across the world. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Admire Mare, Tony Roberts
• Con la collaborazione di: Admire Mare (Editore), Tony Roberts (Editore)
• Editore: Zed Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9781350422087
• ISBN: 978-1-350-42208-7
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Digital Africa
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Sociologia del lavoro, dell'economia e dell'industria; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Impact of science & technology on society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Control, privacy and safety in society