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Prof Charles Raab, Professorial Fellow, Politics and International Relations

Dr Richard Jones, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Law 

Resilience has become a frequent term in academia, practice and policy. This seminar considers several controversies about resilience and surveillance. First, resilience is usually regarded as a ‘good thing’ for societies, individuals and organisations in the face of threats. But is it? Many would say it is not a good thing if a dictatorship were resilient in the face of threats to its existence. Second, ‘resilience’ is often challenged by those who see it as a neo-liberal concept, and oppose it to ‘resistance’. But might the concept of resilience offer us a richer array of preventative and remedial techniques, of which resistance may be one? Third, surveillance may be an important element in resilience strategies, but to whose benefit and at what costs? Are there other ways at looking at the relationship between these two concepts?

We will argue that resilience is a useful concept for analysing and also proposing ways in which societies could maintain liberal values and rights (including privacy) in the face of the threats posed by mass surveillance using data-driven tools for law enforcement and counter-terrorism.