Katie Ion

- Name
- Katie Ion
- Title
- Organisation
- Sociology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- Telephone
- k.m.ion@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Qualitative Research Methods, Protest, Protest policing, Surveillance, ethnography, Social movements, Political Sociology, drug policy, intoxication, social change
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/sociology/katie_ion
PhD Title
Counter/surveillance & Protest: Watching and being watched at public demonstrations in Britain
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz
MSc(R) Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Supervisors
Dr. Hugo Gorringe
Dr. Michael Rosie
Research Interests
- Social movements and social change
- Surveillance studies
- Activist countersurveillance
- Drug policy, culture, and reform movements
- Drug user unions and self-determination
Current Research
Counter/surveillance & Protest: Watching and being watched at public demonstrations in Britain
This project will investigate the performance of police surveillance and activist countersurveillance around protest in the UK. Taking the activist perspective rather than that of law enforcement, it will provide a bottom-up account of the activist experience of police surveillance, trace the evolution of activist countersurveillance, and critique the predominant literature on protest policing in the UK.