Summary
"This thesis examines the Toronto G20 security operation as a “pacification project”. By providing an anarchist, “anti-security” analysis of the G20 Joint Intelligence Group (JIG) I argue that this approach holds the promise of understanding security as a productive power that is mobilized to fabricate and reinforce a capitalist social order. I offer evidence that the JIG fulfilled the surveillance function of the G20 pacification project by carrying out a joint forces security (counter) intelligence operation. The JIG consisted of a ‘joint forces operation’ involving an extensive ‘summit intelligence network’ composed of 26 police departments, military and state intelligence units, and over a hundred corporate and government agencies. The JIG also deployed an array of ‘security intelligence’ (SI) and ‘counterintelligence’ (Cl) techniques primarily targeting radical activists. Moreover, I demonstrate that the JIG invoked legislation and employed discourses of criminality to enable and rationalize its SI and Cl on anti-G20 activists."--Page ii.