Technology and agency in international relations

by Hoijtink, Marijn Leese, Matthias

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Title Statements

Full title :Technology and agency in international relations / edited by Marijn Hoijtink and Matthias Leese.

Summary

This book responds to a gap in the literature in International Relations (IR) by integrating technology more systematically into analyses of global politics. Technology facilitates, accelerates, automates, and exercises capabilities that are greater than human abilities. And yet, within IR, the role of technology often remains under-studied. Building on insights from science and technology studies (STS), assemblage theory and new materialism, this volume asks how international politics are made possible, knowable, and durable by and through technology. The contributors provide empirically rich and pertinent accounts of a variety of technologies relevant to the discipline, including drones, algorithms, satellite imagery, border management databases, and blockchains. Problematizing various technologically mediated issues, such as secrecy, violence, and questions of how authority and evidence become constituted in international contexts, this book will be of interest to scholars in IR, in particular those who work in the subfields of (critical) security studies, International Political Economy, and Global Governance.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : : illustrations (black and white)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429463143, 0429463146, 9780429871757, 0429871759, 9780429871733, 0429871732, 9780429871740, 0429871740
DOI:10.4324/9780429463143.
oclc:on1098275310
LC Classification:JZ1254
Dewey Decimal:327.02854678

How (not) to talk about technology : international relations and the question of agency / Matthias Leese & Marijin Hoijtink -- Co-production : the study of productive processes at the level of materiality and discourse / Katja Lindskov Jacobsen & Linda Monsees -- Configuring warfare : automation, control, agency / Matthias Leese -- Security and technology : unraveling the politics in satellite imagery of North Korea / Philipp Olbrich -- Vision, visuality and agency in the US drone program / Alex Edney-Browne -- What does technology do? : Blockchains, co-production, and extensions of liberal market governance in Anglo-American finance / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn -- Who connects the dots? Agents and agency in predictive policing / Mareile Kaufman -- Designing digital borders : the Visa Information System (VIS) / Georgios Glouftsios -- Technology, agency, critique : an interview with Claudia Aradau / Claudia Aradau, Marijin Hoijtink, & Matthias Leese.

Subjects

Agent (Philosophy) Political Science -- General POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Rela… Politics and government Technologie et relations internationales Technology and international relations