Technology and Agency in International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781032093000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Marijn Hoijtink; Matthias Leese

Opis

This book responds to a gap in the literature on International Relations by integrating technology more systematically into discussions about IR. The contributors provide empirically rich and pertinent accounts of a variety of technologies relevant to the discipline.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 – How (not) to talk about technology: International Relations and the question of agency Chapter 2 – Co-production: The study of productive processes at the level of materiality and discourse Chapter 3 – Configuring warfare: Automation, control, agency Chapter 4 – Security and technology: Unraveling the politics in satellite imagery of North Korea Chapter 5 – Vision, visuality and agency in the US drone program Chapter 6 – What does technology do? Blockchains, co-Production, and extensions of liberal market governance in Anglo-American finance  Chapter 7 – Who connects the dots? Agents and agency in predictive policing Chapter 8 – Designing digital borders: The Visa Information System (VIS) Chapter 9 – Technology, agency, critique: An interview with Claudia Aradau

O autorze

Marijn Hoijtink is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at VU Amsterdam. Her research interests include emerging security technologies and their relation to the politics of risk, militarism and weapons research, and the global circulation of security and military technologies. She has recently received a 4-years Veni grant from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to study the politics of engineering lethal autonomous weapons systems.

Matthias Leese is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. His research is primarily interested in the social effects produced at the intersection between security and technology, and pays specific attention to the normative repercussions of new security technologies across society, both in intended and unintended forms. His work covers various application contexts of security technologies, including airports, borders, policing, and R&D activities.