DossierSurveillance: Feminist Perspectives Urgently Required A shift in digital borders Mobile phone checks spying on refugees and the unemployed on social networks, automated monitoring systems: the broadening of surveillance systems is massively impacting sections of the population, forcing them, and eventually all of us, into marginalization. By Sonja Peteranderl Feminist art and surveillance. An ill-/ well-omened liaison? A queer-feminist insight into art history reveals that surveillance is founded on the feminization of space. What present-day art strategies are working to counteract this, and what is queer-feminist counter-surveillance? By Katrin Köppert Under Surveillance: Cameras at every intersection Even in 2018, most queers know something about hiding. We know why you don’t have to be a criminal to need the cover of darkness. So do refugees and migrants, people with dark skin, and people who wear hijabs or turbans. By Dia Kayali Social Sorting as a Tool for Surveillance The female body is constantly under surveillance - in private spaces as well as in public. Surveillance is about power. It is not just about a violation of privacy, but also an issue of social sorting. By Shmyla Khan Surveillance Intersectional: historical continuities The surveillance of women and their bodies has a long-standing tradition. The intersectional perspective of these historical lines shifts the focus from individual surveillance technologies and practices applied by states and corporations to power relations that underpin surveillance. By Nicole Shephard Who actually owns the data on social networks? Many users put their content online for all to see. This means that not only other private users but also secret services and law enforcement authorities can easily exploit the data. But companies play an important role, too. By Valie Djordjevic Further Readings The Regulation of Online-harassment Violent communication has relevant effects on queer feminist internet activism. This article focuses on options and necessities of regulating such forms of violent anti-feminist and racist communication. How to prevent or to stop violent online-communication? By Gitti Hentschel and Francesca Schmidt The LGBTI Movement and Social Media in Africa LGBTI people have increased their visibility through the formation of national and Pan-African organisations working at grassroots level in the struggle for decriminalization and sensitising their respective communities. The campaign for LGBTI rights in Africa needs to be framed within a global context of growing homophobia and transphobia. The anti-feminist men’s rights movement – lines of thought, networks and online rallying Anti-feminist circles have rallied increasingly against an equity-based gender policy in recent years. These circles are a network-like amalgamation of various groups and individuals originating predominantly from conservative and liberal camps, but also in part from right-wing groups. Feminist net politics - Perspectives and scope for action This study, the main aspects of which have been published here, was compiled in 2012 on behalf of the Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy. It outlines perspectives in queer-feminist net politics, summarizes existent gender policy approaches with regard to net politics, and describes the relevant fields from a feminist perspective. By Kathrin Ganz
A shift in digital borders Mobile phone checks spying on refugees and the unemployed on social networks, automated monitoring systems: the broadening of surveillance systems is massively impacting sections of the population, forcing them, and eventually all of us, into marginalization. By Sonja Peteranderl
Feminist art and surveillance. An ill-/ well-omened liaison? A queer-feminist insight into art history reveals that surveillance is founded on the feminization of space. What present-day art strategies are working to counteract this, and what is queer-feminist counter-surveillance? By Katrin Köppert
Under Surveillance: Cameras at every intersection Even in 2018, most queers know something about hiding. We know why you don’t have to be a criminal to need the cover of darkness. So do refugees and migrants, people with dark skin, and people who wear hijabs or turbans. By Dia Kayali
Social Sorting as a Tool for Surveillance The female body is constantly under surveillance - in private spaces as well as in public. Surveillance is about power. It is not just about a violation of privacy, but also an issue of social sorting. By Shmyla Khan
Surveillance Intersectional: historical continuities The surveillance of women and their bodies has a long-standing tradition. The intersectional perspective of these historical lines shifts the focus from individual surveillance technologies and practices applied by states and corporations to power relations that underpin surveillance. By Nicole Shephard
Who actually owns the data on social networks? Many users put their content online for all to see. This means that not only other private users but also secret services and law enforcement authorities can easily exploit the data. But companies play an important role, too. By Valie Djordjevic
The Regulation of Online-harassment Violent communication has relevant effects on queer feminist internet activism. This article focuses on options and necessities of regulating such forms of violent anti-feminist and racist communication. How to prevent or to stop violent online-communication? By Gitti Hentschel and Francesca Schmidt
The LGBTI Movement and Social Media in Africa LGBTI people have increased their visibility through the formation of national and Pan-African organisations working at grassroots level in the struggle for decriminalization and sensitising their respective communities. The campaign for LGBTI rights in Africa needs to be framed within a global context of growing homophobia and transphobia.
The anti-feminist men’s rights movement – lines of thought, networks and online rallying Anti-feminist circles have rallied increasingly against an equity-based gender policy in recent years. These circles are a network-like amalgamation of various groups and individuals originating predominantly from conservative and liberal camps, but also in part from right-wing groups.
Feminist net politics - Perspectives and scope for action This study, the main aspects of which have been published here, was compiled in 2012 on behalf of the Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy. It outlines perspectives in queer-feminist net politics, summarizes existent gender policy approaches with regard to net politics, and describes the relevant fields from a feminist perspective. By Kathrin Ganz
