Surveillance in the Majority Network will be at the 11th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference, 9-12 June 2026, Université Catholique de Lille, France.
In this conference:
- We have supported 33 scholars from Majority World countries to attend the conference, either in person or online.
- We are hosting a panel on the surveillance of atrocities, featuring presentations by two of our board members, Dima Samaro and Azadeh Akbari.
- Several members of the network’s board will be present during lunch on Wednesday, 10 June. Come and say hello!
We have prepared a list of all presentations related to surveillance research in the Majority World below. Enjoy the conference!
Day 1 (June 10th, 2026)
Planetary Surveillance (9:00-10:30)
- Isadora Zorzi – Governing through innovation: from a Brazilian local context to planetary surveillance
- Khadijah Abdurahman and Mallika Dharmaraj – A Logic(s) Methodology: Surveillance in the Afterlife of the Plantation
Making Surveillance Art (9:00-10:30)
- Julia Chan – Art, Identity, and Mixed Race: Theorizing the Surveillance Affect of Racialization,
- Nobonita Rakshit – Comics as Counter-Surveillance: Mapping the Pluriverse of Anthropogenic Water Crisis in India
Data Governance 1 (11:00 – 12:30)
- Ashwin Varghese – When Surveillance Infrastructure is Developed In-House: Kerala Model and the Changing Dynamics of Dependency, Sovereignty, and Discretion
Palestine (14:00 – 15:15)
- Ozgun Topak, Mais Qandeel – Genocidal Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis
- Shai Gortler – “To Make the State Look in More Zionist Eyes:” Settler Drones, Waxing Sovereignty
- Fareed Ben-Youssef – Phantom Vision: The Voice Of Hind Rajab And The Surveillance Of One’s Own Destruction
Facial Recognition (14:00 – 15:15)
- Fernanda De Carvalho Lage, Lucas Melgaço – Digital Colonialism and Political Instrumentalisation of AI-driven Facial Recognition in Brazil
- Suprita Acharya – What’s in a Face? A Brief Study of Facial Recognition Systems in India
Platforms (15:20 – 16:35)
- Du Shen – Super Apps as Infrastructural Translation: Chinese Surveillance Models in Ethiopia
- Franky Yousry – Harmful Platforms: From Myanmar to Gaza
Indigeneity (15:20 – 16:35)
- Scott Thompson – Air Support as A Timely Response: Drones / RPAS and the New Policing of Rural Setter-Colonial / “Aboriginal” Relationships in Canada
- Suvradip Maitra – Towards Abolition: The NSW Suspect Target Management Plan, Carceral Algorithmic Violence and Indigenous Australians
- Skylar Fetter – Indigenous Sovereignty in the Age of the Drone
Day 2 (June 11th, 2026)
Perceptions 1 (9:00-10:30)
- Sezgin Ateş – “My Phone Is Listening”: Listening Narratives, Perceived Surveillance, and Self-Censorship among Older Adults in Turkey
Workplace Surveillance (9:00 – 10:30)
- Casey Lynch – Surveillance, Automation, and Geographical Flexibility in the Global Contact Center Sector
- Dr. Avdhesh Kumar – Contested Subjectivity at the Work Floor: Workers’ Identity in Surveillance-Driven Infrastructure in the Domestic Call Centre Industry in Delhi
Latin American Perspectives Panel (9:00 – 10:30)
- Rodrigo Firmino, Fernanda Bruno, Gabriel Pereira, Giselle Beiguelman, Flávia Costa – Surveillance studies and the planetary intrusion: Latin American perspectives
Plenary Panel (11:00 – 12:30)
- Hilla Dayan, Dima Samaro, Azadeh Akbari – Surveillance and Atrocity Panel (moderated by Mehdi Ghassemi)
Earth Observation (15:20 – 16:35)
- Gabriel Fernandes Caetano, Alcides Eduardo Dos Reis Peron – Surveillance Ecocapitalism: Datafication of the Amazon Rainforest and Colonialism
- Ali Semih Çamkerten, Alina Wernick, Ludwig Nicole – The vicious cycle of distorted climate modeling for the Global South
The Work of Watching (15:20 – 16:35)
- Balca Arda, Ceren İlikan Rasimoğlu – Neighborhood Watch for Earthquake Preparation: A Mobile Application Design Research for Risk Communication in Istanbul
Facial Recognition 3 (15:20 – 16:35)
- Paulo Melo – Facial Recognition and Racialized Surveillance: An Analysis of Legitimation Discourses by Public Security Agencies in New York and São Paulo
- Marjolein Lanzing – Facial Recognition, Digital Walls, and Structural Injustice: Evaluating biometric surveillance practices targeting non-EU citizens from the perspective of structural injustice theory
Migration & Refuge (17:00 – 18:30)
- Oswaldo Aguilar – AI-Processed Geolocation Surveillance as a Form of Oppression in Contexts of Irregular Migration in Latin America
- Aaron Martin – Humanitarian dimensions of planetary surveillance: the geopolitics of “connectivity as aid”
- Keren Weitzberg – The Nation as Database: Perspectives on biometric interoperability and digital surveillance amongst refugee-led organizations in Kenya
- Joan Lopez-Solano – Inscribing Difference: Structural Violence and Algorithmic Identity Management in the German Asylum System
Day 3 (June 12th, 2026)
Resistance (9:00 – 10:30)
- Kainen Bell – Resisting Digital Surveillance Technologies: Grassroots Movements in Brazil,
- Viviana Echavez Molina – Resistance through appropriation: Surveillance and the Latin American Compilation Documentary
Cities 1 (14:00 – 15:15)
- Gabriella De Biaggi – Securitizing the center-periphery frontier: real estate, surveillance networks, and security assemblages in the frontier of São Paulo’s Southwest Vector
- Valentina da Luz – From Global Logics to Local Infrastructures: Private Surveillance Networks and Urban Security Governance in Rio de Janeiro
Cities 2 (15:30 – 17:00)
- Luiza Dutra – Who Controls the Image Controls the Narrative: Body-Worn Cameras, Surveillance, and the Politics of Visibility in Brazil
- Lou Barzaghi – Borderizing the City: Urban Surveillance and Differentiated Mobilities in Medellín
Expansion of Policing 2 (15:30 – 17:00)
- Juan Rodrigues – Security as a territorial technology: on the expansion of predictive policing in Brazil
- Roberta Da Silva Medina – The “Dronification” of Police Power: Predictive Policing and Competing Sociotechnical Futures in Brazil
Chilling Effects and Assemblages (15:30 – 17:00)
- Amir Cahane – Online State Surveillance and its Chilling Effects over Arab-Israelis
Researching Authoritarian Surveillance Panel (15:30 – 17:00)
- Jasmin Dall’Agnola, Mehdi Ghassemi, Amr Marzouk, Cristina Plamadeala