Karissa Ketter

Surveillance & Society This special issue features a guest-edited section on “Global Futures of Digital Confinement,” a roundtable discussion on the criminalization of environmental activism, a dialogue section taking stock of the “surveillant assemblage” concept twenty-five years after its initial publication, and a handful of book reviews. Cover image: An asylum seeker from Ecuador camouflages her ankle monitor, hoping that her black leggings and sneakers will make it less visible.

By: Karissa Ketter, News Editor With ever-increasing concern for our planet, longtime Canadian environmental activist duo David Suzuki and are trying a new way to get people’s attention. They hit the stage February 13–17 to star in What You Won’t Do For Love alongside actors and theatre-makers, Miriam Fernandes and Sturla Alvsvaag. What You Won’t Do For Love is a love story where humans are “not the centre of the story [ . . . ] Nature is,” as Fernandes said in the show.

In one of the opening scenes of Surveillance State, Josh Chin and Liza Lin (2022: 41) describe how then Xinjiang party secretary Chen Quanguo tested the response time of local police in front of a market in the Ürümchi Uyghur neighbourhood of Dawan in early 2017. In less than 54 seconds, a team from the nearest People’s Convenience Station responded to a threat alert. But Chen was not satisfied.