Surveilled Muslims alter their actions through self-discipline to avoid further monitoring

Evidence

Nadine Naber (2006) coined the term internment of the psyche to describe how Arab Muslims she interviewed in San Francisco responded to the fear and anxiety of state surveillance immediately after 9/11. Some of her participants expressed deep paranoia, while others altered their actions and behaviors, like avoiding too much time in public spaces, in order to prevent their surveillance. I also found that Muslim Americans responded to their surveillance by monitoring their own actions and behaviors in order to prevent hypersurveillance, particularly in airports. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 318

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Naber’s ‘internment of the psyche’ as the self-discipline response to surveillance.
• XREF: connects to: Airports function as a panopticon where Muslims must prove loyalty to avoid discipline. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 323; Perceived surveillance pressure drives Muslims to preemptively perform anti-terror condemnation — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 623; Muslim American men feared interviewing because hypersurveillance made them distrust strangers — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 685

Related

• Surveillance makes Muslim Americans police their own behavior to avoid scrutiny (similarity 0.93)
• Surveillance causes Muslims to discipline their own behavior preemptively (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance fear makes Muslims internalize discipline and self-police (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance makes Muslim men strategically perform loyalty to manage others’ suspicions (similarity 0.81)
• Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets (similarity 0.81)
• Fear of unpredictable surveillance makes Muslim Americans surveil themselves, disempowering them. (similarity 0.80)
• Surveillance leads Muslims to police their own actions and dress (similarity 0.80)
• Most Muslim Americans respond to airport surveillance with self-discipline rather than resistance (similarity 0.80)
• Perceived surveillance pressure drives Muslims to preemptively perform anti-terror condemnation (similarity 0.79)
• Perceived surveillance reliably reduces opportunism across everyday settings (similarity 0.79)
• Airports function as panopticons where Muslim Americans self-police ordinary behaviors. (similarity 0.79)
• Airport surveillance of Muslims requires participation from the state, private citizens, and Muslims themselves (similarity 0.79)
• Hypersurveilled Muslims withdraw from institutions they fear may watch them (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim men self-censor to avoid being associated with terrorism. (similarity 0.78)
• Muslim men self-censor politically because state surveillance targets them, unlike women watched by strangers (similarity 0.78)