Protecting our Movements: Research Methods against Surveillance

Sofija Stefanović

Sofija Stefanović is an organiser, researcher and dance practitioner. Their PhD research at Cambridge comes out of practices of transnational solidarity building and weaves questions of extractivism, surveillance and coloniality from abolitionist and decolonial lenses. She is part of ZBOR (translated roughly as assembly and acronym for United Balkan Labour and Resistance), a transnational Balkan platform and process for resource sharing, political education and direct action.

This workshop focuses on research practices suitable for working in solidarity with social movements/communities targeted by digital surveillance and other forms of digital repression. The key aim is to examine practical ways to build solidarity from the university’s institutional location. We will ground ourselves in the context on increased criminalisation and repression of social movements, learn about different lineages of digital security work as part of broader collective care/safety practices, map organisations, methodologies and resources in this ecosystem and work on practical skills and resources (particularly around consent, harm, conflict and repair in these contexts).

This collaborative workshop is designed primarily for university researchers with grassroots organising experience and organisers interested in working with researchers. It will also be informative to researchers curious about bridging gaps between scholars.

This workshop is part of our Methods Fellowship programme, which develops and delivers innovative teaching in digital methods. You can read more about the and view the complete series of .

Our CDH Methods workshops have limited places and are prioritised for students and staff at the University of Cambridge. However, if space is available, we welcome all participants who want to learn and apply digital methods and use digital tools in their research.

This session may be of particular interest to:

• PhD students in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• Early Career Researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

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