Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test

Abstract

Akbari discusses the political theories of authoritarianism and the current discussions on authoritarian surveillance He scrutinizes Iran's inability to apply its political surveillance tools during a public health crisis and argues for an analytical integration of other sociopolitical concepts and economic potentialities into discussions of authoritarian surveillance Furthermore, he proposes a situated understanding of authoritarian surveillance contextualized within social, political, economic, and historical interrelations