Technology and Agency in International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781138615397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 210 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