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Oct 20 2020

Andy Clarno: “Counter/Surveillance: Big Data, Criminalization, and Abolition in Chicago”

Institute for the Humanities Fellows Lecture

October 20, 2020

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Location

Via Zoom (info in description)

Address

Chicago, IL 60612

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"Counter/Surveillance: Big Data, Criminalization, and Abolition in Chicago"

Andy Clarno, Departments of Sociology and Black Studies (with Sangeetha Ravichandran)

When: Oct 20, 2020 04:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kfu-oqTMpHtHCcDdolX56-wbaFj9S7NJF

In an era of Big Data, police databases transform racialized discourses about crime, terror, and belonging into permanent records with real implications for individuals and communities. This project examines Big Data policing as a site for the production, circulation, and deployment of racialized state knowledge. Yet abolitionist movements in Chicago are refusing criminalized archetypes and demanding an end to data sharing agreements. These movements help us envision a pathway to decriminalization and abolition through the erasure of police databases and the recovery of full humanity for people targeted by police.

Andy Clarno is Associate Professor of Sociology and Black Studies and coordinator of the Policing in Chicago Research Group at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research examines racism, capitalism, colonialism, and empire in the early 21 st century, with a focus on the relationship between marginalization and securitization. Andy teaches courses on globalization, race and ethnicity, policing, and urban sociology. Andy’s book, Neoliberal Apartheid (University of Chicago Press 2017), analyzes political, economic, and social transformation in South Africa and Palestine/Israel since 1994.

Contact

Linda Vavra
312-996-6354
lvavra@uic.edu

Date posted

Sep 14, 2020

Date updated

Oct 13, 2020