How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?

Article Article scientifique Article How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action? eng 2023-09-11 2023-09-11 author Penic Sandra 0000-0002-5575-0680 Department of Political Science and International Relations and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland 931576 Services communs du CISA (EMCO) author Donnay Karsten 0000-0002-9080-6539 Department of Political Science University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland author Bhavnani Ravi 0000-0001-6501-5682 International Relations/Political Science Department The Graduate Institute Geneva Switzerland 908836 author Elcheroth Guy Institute of Psychology University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland 510146 author Albzour Mai Department Of Social And Behavioral Science Birzeit University Birzeit West Bank Palestine pops.12925 10.1111/pops.12925 0162-895X https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12925 <p>How does residing in the proximity of surveillance infrastructure—i.e., checkpoints, the separation barrier, and military installations—affect support for cooperative and confrontational forms of collective action? Cooperative actions involve engagement with outgroups to advance the ingroup cause (e.g., negotiations, joint actions, and peace movements), whereas confrontational actions involve unilateral tactics to weaken the outgroup (e.g., boycott, armed resistance). In the context of West Bank and Jerusalem, we combine geo‐coded data on the surveillance infrastructure with a representative survey of the adult population from 49 communities ( N = 1,000). Our multilevel analyses show that surveillance does not affect support for confrontational actions but instead decreases support for cooperative actions. Moreover, we identify a new, community‐level mechanism whereby surveillance undermines cooperative actions through weakening inclusive norms that challenge dominant us‐versus‐them perspectives. These effects are empirically robust to various individual‐ and community‐level controls, as well as to the potential of reverse causality and residential self‐selection. Our findings illustrate how cooperative voices and the fabric of social communities become the first casualties of exposure to surveillance. They also speak to the importance of considering structural factors, with broader implications for the socio‐psychological study of collective action.</p> Dewey 300 Swiss National Science Foundation Geographies of exclusionary surveillance and collective resilience in the occupied Palestinian territories 180684 CH Careers Swiss National Science Foundation Fostering pluralistic memories and collective resilience in fragile transitional justice processes 171188 CH Programmes 10 Faculté des sciences de la société T false Political psychology 57b0fc5b-1512-49ff-bc63-099bced9946d Article (Published version) Public Penic et al (2023) Political Psycho.pdf 1729771 application/pdf CC BY-NC-ND-4.0 631265825590293acd324b87a4ee30796c8c5cc2f157333366caf40d23cee417 openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société

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