Islam, surveillance and the rise of a global police system.
They way we should think of this is not as a clash of cultural values between two different groups - Muslims vs non-Muslims, immigrants vs the existing population - but really as culture becoming a property of the much deeper conflict about power.
Author Arun Kundnani examines the criminalization and surveillance apparatus around Muslims in the US post (and pre) 9/11, explains how the deeply political mistreatment of ethnic and religious minorities is tolerated and excused as cultural clashes with the majority, and warns the surveillance state is not just a new technique of law enforcement, but capitalism itself.
Arun is featured in the collection Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter from Verso Books.
Guest
Arun Kundnani
Arun Kundnani is author of The Muslims are Coming!, and an Adjunct Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
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