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urn:uuid:60f93b71-e6ce-4507-8038-3c7ca049eb35 03 15 9781912729111 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Sensing In/Security Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures 1 A01 Nina Klimburg-Witjes Nina Klimburg-Witjes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Science & Technology Studies, University of Vienna. In her work at the intersection of science and technology studies and critical security studies, she explores the role of technological innovation and knowledge practices in securitization processes, with a particular focus on sensors and space technologies. Tracing the entanglements between industries, political institutions, and users, Nina is interested in how visions about sociotechnical vulnerabilities are co-produced with security devices and policy, and how novel security technologies interact with issues of privacy and democracy. 2 B01 Nikolaus Poechhacker Nikolaus Poechhacker is a researcher at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science, University of Graz. Before his academic life, he worked as an IT professional. In his research, he is studying the relationship between democratic institutions, social order, and algorithmic systems in various domains, bringing together perspectives from media theory, science and technology studies, computer science, and sociology. Most recently, he is exploring the impact of algorithmic procedures and digital legal technologies on the legal system. 3 B01 Geoffrey C. Bowker Geoffrey C. Bowker is Chancellor’s Professor and Donald Bren Chair at the School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine, where he directs the Evoke Laboratory, which explores new forms of knowledge expression. Recent positions include Professor of and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh iSchool and Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara. Together with Leigh Star he wrote Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences; his most recent books are Memory Practices in the Sciences and (with Stefan Timmermans, Adele Clarke and Ellen Balka) the edited collection: Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star. He is currently working on big data policy and on scientific cyberinfrastructure; as well as completing a book on social readings of data and databases. He is a founding member of the Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society. 4 A23 Lucy Suchman Lucy Suchman is a Professor Emerita of Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University. Her work at the intersections of anthropology and feminist science and technology studies engages cultural imaginaries and material practices of technology design, with a focus on demilitarisation and social justice. 01 eng 00 312 03 10 SOC026000 23 Transnational Security Infrastructures 23 Sensors 23 Securitisation practices 23 Surveillance 23 Critical Security Studies 23 Science and Technology Studies 01 06 03 00 Sensing In/Security: Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures investigates how sensors and sensing practices enact regimes of security and insecurity. It extends long-standing concerns with infrastructuring to emergent modes of surveillance and control by exploring how digitally networked sensors shape securitisation practices. Contributions in this volume examine how sensing devices gain political and epistemic relevance in various forms of in/security, from border control, regulation, and epidemiological tracking, to aerial surveillance and hacking. Instead of focusing on specific sensory devices and their consequences, this volume explores the complex and sometimes invisible political, cultural and ethical processes of infrastructuring in/security. 04 00 Foreword. Lucy Suchman. 1. Sensing in/securities: An introduction. Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Nikolaus Poechhacker and Geoffrey C. Bowker. 2. Microclimates of (in)security in Santiago: Sensors, sensing and sensations. Martin Tironi and Matías Valderrama. 3. Smart cities, smart borders: Sensing networks and security in the urban space. Ilia Antenucci. 4. Sensing Salmonella: Modes of sensing and the politics of sensing infrastructures. Francis Lee. 5. Human sensing infrastructures and global public health security in India’s Million Death Study. Erik Aarden. 6. Expanding technosecurity culture: On wild cards, imagination and disaster prevention. Jutta Weber. 7. Visual Vignette I. Parasitic Surveillance: Mobile Security Vulnerability. Evan Light, Fenwick McKelvey and Rachel Douglas-Jones. 8. Visual Vignette II. A Tail of Breadcrumbs. Chris Wood. 9. Visual Vignette III. Human Sensors. Katja Mayer and El Iblis Shah. 10. Visual Vignettes IV. Mascha Gugganig and Rachel Douglas-Jones. 11. Drones as political machines: Technocratic governance in Canadian drone space. Ciara Bracken-Roche. 12. Sensing European alterity: An analogy between sensors and Hotspots in transnational security networks. Annalisa Pelizza and Wouter Van Rossem. 13. Sensing data centres. A.R.E. Taylor and Julia Velkova. 14. Hacking satellites. Jan-H. Passoth, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Godert-Jan van Manen. Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20210824 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729104 06 15 9781912729111 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01