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This month’s papers examine how people live under different “surveillance states.” From a history of the Soviet Union’s secret police to an anthropologist’s study of poverty and precarity in present-day Philadelphia, these two papers ask us to think about how people experience and negotiate states that monitor them.     

"'It be hard just existing': Affective Precarity and Institutional Surveillance in Philadelphia’s Inner-city" Tali Ziv, Anthropology

"Foreign Visitors in the Late Soviet Union, the KGB and the Limits of Surveillance" Alex Hazanov, History