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The Sticky-Stalker State Subject: Surveillance of Dissent in Turkey

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Deniz Yonucu

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Abstract

Despite the emergence of high-tech surveillance tools, conventional forms of undercover surveillance have not become obsolete. In this chapter, drawing on an ethnographic case study from Turkey and addressing the ever-increasing deployment of undercover police surveillance and informant activities in policing dissent, I ask: Why in an era of unprecedented development in digital surveillance technologies, undercover police activities are still employed? Building upon the existing body of literature that illuminates the role of undercover policing in controlling and manipulating dissidents, I argue that another crucial aspect of undercover policing is its capacity to transform the state—a sociological abstraction—into a tangible, material entity, albeit one that is deeply unsettling and menacing, within the daily lives of targeted populations. Through insidious undercover policing practices, the state emerges as an adhesive, predatory presence that sticks to the body and infiltrates the mind, depriving its targets of a feeling of freedom.


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Author(s): Yonucu D

Editor(s): Di Ronco A; Selmini R

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: In Press

Book Title: Criminalisation of Dissent in Times of Crisis

Year: 2025

Acceptance date: 12/09/2024

Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place Published: Cham

Notes: 9783031753763 ebook ISBN.

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9783031753756


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