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Der Widerstand gegen den Ausufernden Überwachungsstaat scheint momentan an vielen Ecken und Enden für Interesse zu sorgen. Ich habe noch nie zuvor dermaßen viele Anfragen bekommen und bin dermaßen häufig auf Projekte hingewiesen worden, welche sich in Workshops und Vorträgen, Heften und Artikeln damit auseinander setzen, wie man der staatlichen Datensammelwut noch Herr werden kann.

Die interdisziplinäre Onlinefachzeitschrift “Surveillance and Society” ruft nun in einem CFP ebenfalls zu Beiträgen in diesem Bereich auf: Issue 22: Surveillance and Resistance. Die Frist für Einsendungen ist der 15. Oktober dieses Jahres, erscheinen soll die Ausgabe am in etwa einem Jahr, im März 2009:

Public debates over the use of information and identification technologies, such as profiling targeted groups and contentious arguments over the use of CCTV in public spaces, clearly show that surveillance-based practices are highly contested political territory within and across contemporary societies. And yet, despite a wealth of recent literature on surveillance in its various configurations, scholars have paid relatively little attention to issues of resistance of these technologies. This special issue will address this deficit by collecting and publishing papers that foreground questions as to whether surveillance can be successfully resisted and, if so, how resistance could be engendered. To this end, we seek papers from various disciplines and theoretical standpoints that explore the following areas:

• The formation of anti-surveillance movements; conventional and non-conventional modes of challenging surveillance;
• The potentiality of using sousveillance and/or forms of counter-surveillance as means of engendering resistance to publicly and/or privately sponsored surveillance schemes;
• The use of anti-surveillance technologies (such as disabling, encryption and anonymizer tools);
• The creation of simulated identities and other deceptions aimed at subverting surveillance;
• Resistance through constitutional and legislative measures;
• Resistance through the use of privacy structures, such as data protection commissioners;
• Resistance from within bureaucracies and agencies of social control, including both every-day and/or organized modes of resistance (for example, workers lobbying for the removal of systems that surveil them). This may also include resistance through the translation (or selective deployment) of surveillance systems (for example, teachers in public schools helping students circumvent extreme, surveillance-enabled school discipline), and;
• The question of whether resistance to surveillance is ultimately possible in the short or long term.

These topics are offered as suggestions, and we are also open to other subjects not outlined above that speak to resistance to surveillance as a special theme of scholarship, including art work.

Eine besonders unterstützenswerte Ausgabe wie ich finde.