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Ziyanda Stuurman : The colonial origins and mandates of policing in South Africa, the private security market, and abolition (Part 1 of 2)
Ziyanda Stuurman shares her reflections on her debut book, Can We Be Safe: The Future of Policing in South Africa, broader insights on the inadequate delivery of safety and justice from the police and what the vision of abolition could be in South Africa. Ziyanda Stuurman is a political science and security studies graduate who…
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ODB in the New York Times
At the end of 2020, Our Data Bodies was featured in The New York Times for their annual Good Tech Awards. The Good Tech Awards profile technology efforts that make an important impact in their respective fields from racial justice to food and wellness to COVID-19 responses. ODB received mention for our work on facial…
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Kenia Alonzo & Edgar Cruz of Generation Justice: Oral Histories of Surveillance
We started teasing out all the levels of the way we actually criminalize young people by having surveillance. We started thinking about who’s in charge of this and who’s really pushing this through, and it was both acutely. Well, it was acutely APS, but also broadly that there was nobody, no one person making sure…
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Tyler Hamilton: Oral Histories of Surveillance
Amazon is sort of an interesting case. They track everything you do. Like, when I first came in joining… I started working there, one of the, they had sort of their ambassadors, like, showing people around, showing you “Here is the workstations.” One of the things that people will normally notice or point out, is…
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Sheheryar Kaoosji: Oral Histories of Surveillance
Misclassifying—especially truck drivers—as independent contractors, and that’s obviously something that’s spread to a bunch of other sectors, rideshare being the most obvious one. So now we’re seeing this surveillance kind of capitalism based in Amazon and other companies and seeing, again, that this is starting here and that it’s not going to stay here, it’s…
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Heriberto Ramirez, Helen Ceballos, and Celiany Rivera Velázquez: Oral Histories of Surveillance
[W]e were born with a surveillance camera of the Empire looking at this state… [W]hen one enters into processes of consciousness one says: “This is not right.” …I think that’s one of the great challenges in colonized spaces and how through individual empowerment of each unite, to look at ourselves in the group and say:…