_Reminder_:we are pleased to invite contributions to our panel "*Sensing
<br>Security. Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security
<br>Infrastructures"* at the EASST conference in Lancaster, 25th-28th July
<br>2018.*
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<br>Panel description:_*
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<br>The interplay of sensing and (algorithmic) sense-making marks an
<br>important, yet underexplored momentum in the social construction of
<br>security in increasingly digital societies. Sensory devices are not only
<br>producing multiple ontologies but also produce and mediate "macro-level"
<br>entities through information infrastructures in the making (Bowker 2017;
<br>Mukerji, 2011). In our session we want to explore the role of sensors
<br>and data infrastructures in the construction and interpretation of
<br>changing local and global socio-technical environments in recent
<br>discussions in science and technology studies, critical security and
<br>critical data studies. We call for contributions exploring how sensing
<br>devices - from satellites and drones to environmental sensor networks
<br>and digital sensing infrastructures - become invested with global and
<br>socio-political significance. We seek both large-scale empirical
<br>accounts of historical and contemporary cases across the globe, and
<br>welcome papers that critically investigate sensors and sensory networks
<br>as situated security practices of infrastructure making. In the our
<br>panel we want to explore topics such as, but not limited to:
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<br> * 'Infrastructural inversions' (Bowker & Star, 2000) of sensors
<br> infrastructures as objects of international political controversy.
<br> * Smart borders or body scanners as means to control migration flows.
<br> * Novel forms of (criminological) knowledge through predictive analytics.
<br> * The connection between electronic devices - and their leftovers - to
<br> human rights violations, conflict and exclusion and a possible
<br> responsible governance framework.
<br> * How do sensors shape, shift and constitute domains of national and
<br> international security and policy-making?
<br> * The role of sensor infrastructures in the constitution and mediation
<br> between state and non-state actors.
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<br>*Convenors:* Nina Witjes & Nikolaus Pöchhacker, Munich Center for
<br>Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich
<br>
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<br>Deadline: February _**_*_14th_*, 2018_*
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<br>*Please submit abstracts of max. 250 words here:*
<br>https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/6250
<br>
<br>Online version of this call can be found here:
<br>https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6250
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<br>Details about the conference: https://easst2018.easst.net/
<br>
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<br>For more information & contact:*
<br>
<br>Nina Witjes, nina.witjes@tum.de
<br>Nikolaus Pöchhacker, nikolaus.poechhacker@tum.de
<br>
<br>
<br>We are looking forward to your contributions!
<br>
<br>Nina & Nikolaus
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