A Panopticon of Georgian Politics: Naturalized Concept of Illegal Surveillance and Its Political Utility
Keywords:
Surveillance and Democracy, Georgia, Illegal Surveillance, Georgian Dream, State Security Service of GeorgiaAbstract
The thesis explores the persistent perceptions of politically motivated illegal surveillance practices in Georgia and aims to highlight the extent of their detrimental effect on the integrity of democratic processes while relying on the theoretical groundwork done by surveillance studies. To achieve this, the research uses discourse textual analysis to trace the dominant discourse on the topic through local media coverage. It is then supplemented by primary interviews with the local activists and politicians to tie the dominant discourse to their experiences and local political processes.References
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