Description:
Sensing In/Security investigates how sensors and sensing practices enact regimes of security and insecurity.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
The book emphasises the importance of "following" things and studying the "becoming" of networks. It reads like a journey - moving physically, mentally, conceptually, empirically and visually from one site and one situation to another.
Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam
This rich and extensive collection examines sensors and sensing at the intersections of Critical Security Studies and Science and Technology Studies.
Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University