The new book, Policing Indigenous Movements, by Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan details the new normal in terms of the routine and extensive
surveillance of Indigenous movements. We have detailed four case studies
examining the criminalization of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the
mobilizations against the Northern Gateway Pipelines, the Idle No More
movement, and the anti-shale gas movement in New Brunswick surrounding
the Elsipogtog First Nation.
Researching these prominent movements has revealed the extent to which Indigenous activists are policed using the powers and resources of the national security apparatus, demonstrating the extensive reach of the “war on terror” into the traditional domain of colonial governance. We use primary sources of information to detail these surveillance and policing practices: the records of policing agencies, Indian Affairs, and bureaucracies of the national security apparatus obtained through the Access to Information Act. It is through accounts of these conflicts that we narrate how policing agencies function as an extension of extractive capitalism.
In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and successfully slowed the rate of resource extraction.
But their success has also meant an increase in the surveillance and policing of Indigenous peoples and their movements. In Policing Indigenous Movements, Crosby and Monaghan use the Access to Information Act to interrogate how policing and other security agencies have been monitoring, cataloguing and working to silence Indigenous land defenders and other opponents of extractive capitalism. Through an examination of four prominent movements — the long-standing conflict involving the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the struggle against the Northern Gateway Pipeline, the Idle No More movement and the anti-fracking protests surrounding the Elsipogtog First Nation — this important book raises critical questions regarding the expansion of the security apparatus, the normalization of police surveillance targeting social movements, the relationship between police and energy corporations, the criminalization of dissent and threats to civil liberties and collective action in an era of extractive capitalism and hyper surveillance.
In one of the most comprehensive accounts of contemporary government surveillance, the authors vividly demonstrate that it is the norms of settler colonialism that allow these movements to be classified as national security threats and the growing network of policing, governmental, and private agencies that comprise what they call the security state.
Researching these prominent movements has revealed the extent to which Indigenous activists are policed using the powers and resources of the national security apparatus, demonstrating the extensive reach of the “war on terror” into the traditional domain of colonial governance. We use primary sources of information to detail these surveillance and policing practices: the records of policing agencies, Indian Affairs, and bureaucracies of the national security apparatus obtained through the Access to Information Act. It is through accounts of these conflicts that we narrate how policing agencies function as an extension of extractive capitalism.
In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and successfully slowed the rate of resource extraction.
But their success has also meant an increase in the surveillance and policing of Indigenous peoples and their movements. In Policing Indigenous Movements, Crosby and Monaghan use the Access to Information Act to interrogate how policing and other security agencies have been monitoring, cataloguing and working to silence Indigenous land defenders and other opponents of extractive capitalism. Through an examination of four prominent movements — the long-standing conflict involving the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the struggle against the Northern Gateway Pipeline, the Idle No More movement and the anti-fracking protests surrounding the Elsipogtog First Nation — this important book raises critical questions regarding the expansion of the security apparatus, the normalization of police surveillance targeting social movements, the relationship between police and energy corporations, the criminalization of dissent and threats to civil liberties and collective action in an era of extractive capitalism and hyper surveillance.
In one of the most comprehensive accounts of contemporary government surveillance, the authors vividly demonstrate that it is the norms of settler colonialism that allow these movements to be classified as national security threats and the growing network of policing, governmental, and private agencies that comprise what they call the security state.
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