"This Has Become Our Politics" - A Comic About Researching the Impact of #SpyCops
This comic is based on research Nathan Stephens Griffin conducted with environmental activists who have been spied on by undercover police officers (or 'spycops') in the UK. As discussed in the comic, the scale and scope of undercover policing and intimate state surveillance is believed to have been huge, with more than 150 officers spying on over 1000 political groups. Spycops perpetrated a range of harms, and I interviewed activists to try and better understand the way this has impacted environmental activism. The comic also provides a visual space for autoethnographic reflections on the implicit challenges of doing research of this kind.
This comic is based on research Nathan Stephens Griffin conducted with environmental activists who have been spied on by undercover police officers (or 'spycops') in the UK. As discussed in the comic, the scale and scope of undercover policing and intimate state surveillance is believed to have been huge, with more than 150 officers spying on over 1000 political groups. Spycops perpetrated a range of harms, and I interviewed activists to try and better understand the way this has impacted environmental activism. The comic also provides a visual space for autoethnographic reflections on the implicit challenges of doing research of this kind.
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