GUARDINT: Who guards the guardians?

European research project examining surveillance, intelligence and oversight | Teams from @KingsCollegeLon @SciencesPo @WZB_Berlin @SNV_Berlin @UJML

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We've started sending out our surveys on civic intelligence oversight in the #UK, #France & #Germany. Our aim is to gather information about different dimensions of civic oversight practices, e.g. available resources, scope of activities, information rights and legal remedies.

[Hager Ben Jaffel @BenJaffel]

With a little of delay, I'm delighted to announce the publication of the 2nd volume in our New Intelligence Studies series: Intelligence Oversight in times of Transnational Impunity, co-edited by @didierbigo @EmmaMcCluskey15 & @FelixTreguer and in OA 👇

https://t.co/fAkLvGEUfm

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10/10: By attending to practices, the article brings to the fore the limits of liberal democracy and the struggles for other forms of democracy.

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🔴 Publication alert!

Our colleagues @RonjaKniep, Lina Ewert, @berna_leon, @FelixTreguer, @EmmaMcCluskey15 & @claudia_aradau published this research paper in Review of International Studies.

A short thread on the main takeaways 🧵:

https://t.co/BgeZJMO7uT

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9/10: This article challenges the normative assumptions centring on liberal, functionalist, and technocratic views at the expense of more radical and agonistic understandings of democracy.

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He echoes as well the work of our colleague @FelixTreguer:

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Our colleague @berna_leon explains in @_infoLibre some of the findings of our three-year-long project on intelligence oversight:

[Berna León @berna_leon]

En la segunda parte de esta serie especial sobre inteligencia para @_infoLibre hablo sobre la falta de controles democráticos que existe en España.

¿Qué cabe proponer para vigilar a los vigilantes?

https://t.co/PyRB4xfYpP

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Last but not least, a thank you to all survey participants! @_frichter and @twetzling will present some results at the conference today: https://t.co/mdvFqANF5d

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Check out our Civic Intelligence Oversight Explorer: https://t.co/fcd3Hyy9yj It provides open access & visualises anonymised data gathered in our empirical investigation on the perceptions of media & civil society professionals in FR/GER/UK on surveillance and oversight. 1/4

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We’d like to thank Linus Sehn (https://t.co/KCXen1FMbb) for creating this website. We are also grateful to @streamlit for enabling the functionality of the data explorer. Our researchers were @_frichter, @RonjaKniep, @newsvieth, @sarah_naima__, @twetzling, Mouna Smaali.

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Join us online on the 26th and 27th Jan. Link for registering here: https://t.co/mdvFqANF5d

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We're excited to announce our upcoming online conference 'Intelligence, surveillance & oversight: tracing connections & contestations'! Register here: https://t.co/mdvFqANF5d

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5/ We'll be ending our conference with a roundtable chaired by @claudia_aradau on 'Futures of intelligence oversight' in discussion with @AzadeAkbari, @didierbigo and @berna_leonm @NortonTaylor, and @susan_e_cahill