Ankle Bracelets and the Colonial Project with Monish Bhatia

Dr Monish Bhatia is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Birkbeck University of London where he researches the use of electronic monitoring on refugees in the UK. Since a similar scheme has been proposed in Australia in lieu of indefinite detention, Miles chats to Monish about what happens when you turn society into a prison.

Read more of Monish’s work here. And more on how Australia uses electronic monitoring here.

Stuff we dig:

This Conversation piece we referenced in the show about why NSW Police and Tinder teaming up is a bad idea

Also more detail on India’s speech crackdown over their COVID crisis

Meanwhile Joe Rogan is telling people not to get vaccinated so it’s really cool he still has a platform

We happen to totally agree that Substack is a pyramid scheme (ours is/will always be free and accessible to non-subscribers!!)

This Rest of World story about Mexico City’s incredible grid of video surveillance and how it does f**k all to actually help people

Some cool archaeology news about using modelling tech to map prehistoric human movement

The latest Flash Forward pod take down of the Smart City

And finally, speaking of the situation in India:

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