Island imaginaries: Introduction to a special section

M Gugganig, N Klimburg-Witjes - Science as Culture, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Colonial empires, scientists, philanthropists and Hollywood studios have long sustained an
image of islands as remote places with unique ecologies and cultures, experimental labs, or …

Security as infrastructure: controlling the rhythms and spacetimes of the city

D Carrière, P Tripathy - Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Security and securitisation of cities are arguably among the most discussed topics in city
governance, yet the socio-technical infrastructures on which it relies are rarely centre-staged …

Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice

J Chao, D van Geenen, C Gerlitz… - …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
'Digital methods' turn to medium-specific and online avenues for social and cultural
research. While these approaches foster empirical media studies, it has become …

[PDF][PDF] Infrastructures and International Relations: A Critical Reflection on Materials and Mobilities

J Bakonyi, M Darwich - International Studies Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In a world of accelerated movements, this article examines how infrastructures matter in
international relations. We first show that the International Relations (IR) discipline has …

Drone sensing volumes

A Jackman - The Geographical Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. Following their establishment as icons of
contemporary warfare, drones are increasingly deployed in a range of more‐than‐military …

Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities

M Finn, M Ananny - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Anticipatory infrastructures assemble sensors that are ready to detect, networks primed to
share data, scientists prepared to confirm events, and news organizations poised to tell …

Experimenting with the Social life of homes: sensor governmentality and its frictions

M Tironi, M Valderrama - Science as Culture, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Smart devices are invading everyday spaces like our bedrooms and living rooms, making it
possible to conduct new participatory experimentations in the 'real world'. An example is the …

Introduction: The Power and Productivity of Vigilance Regimes

A Ivasiuc, E Dürr, C Whittaker - Conflict and Society, 2022 - berghahnjournals.com
This introduction to the special section charts the ways in which the concept of vigilance has
been loosely conceptualized at the intersection between security, surveillance, and border …

The security-innovation nexus in (Geo-) political imagination

C Haddad, D Vorlíček, N Klimburg-Witjes - Geopolitics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Security and innovation have become increasingly entangled at the level of political
rationalities, imagination, and material practice, forming what we conceptualise as the …

Infrastructures of (non) knowledge1: Fakes and fear at Europe's borders

C Aradau - Technopolitics and the Making of Europe, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
False identities, forged documents and fake narratives underpin discourses and practices of
border control in Europe. Migrants are always under suspicion that they 'fake'their stories …