Frédérique Roy, a master’s student in urban planning and collaborator with the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape, presented her research at the IDES Annual Conference “Resistance and Agency in the Digital Society: Beyond Literacy, Transparency, and Risk Assessment”, at the University of Lausanne.
Fred’s presentation, titled “Sketching the surveillant assemblage: Lived experiences of surveillance among climate and environmental justice activists in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal”, highlighted activists’ experiential and situated knowledge as a legitimate entry point for examining surveillance, a largely opaque phenomenon