The New Transparency is associated with The Surveillance Studies Centre.
The focus of this IRSP is to link state surveillance activities to population management in conflict zones. Population management involves studying how populations are identified, sorted, categorized, and spatially located. This IRSP focuses on Israel/Palestine as an exemplary conflict zone that also has a major impact on surveillance practices elsewhere. The Israeli case is central for several reasons: Institutional aspects of surveillance are most developed in Israel and are basic to current forms of governance in the region, as are key surveillance production and marketing sites (surveillance technologies have been predominant spin-offs of Israel’s military and security industries since 9/11). Research investigates surveillance-related aspects of identity, population management, citizenship status and ways to monitor it, mobility of people (in particular the role of the check points, the wall, curfews, closures, etc.), use of military technology in civilian areas, and urban designs and land usage. At the same time, the recipients of surveillance technologies and techniques developed in Israel will also be examined, particularly in select European and North American countries. The theme of securitization, conflict zones and surveillance will be pursued throughout the project, but the first two years will lay the foundations for this research with a view to expand it to include other regions dominated by conflict.
The research workshop States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel/Palestine is an outcome of IRSP IV.
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