Technopolitics and the Making of Europe - Infrastructures of Security

This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity.

List of contents

Making Europe through Infrastructures of In/Security: An Introduction Part I. Infrastructures and the Technopolitics of In/Security 1. Becoming a new European: the politics and practices of Czech biosecurity infrastructures 2. Energy infrastructuring the Baltic Sea Region: Between technification and securitization Part II. Infrastructures and the (Non)Knowledges of In/Security 3. Infrastructures of (non)knowledge: Fakes and fear at Europe's borders 4. Circulating Data Objects. Infrastructural coordination and technoburaucratic governance of European border control 5. The torqued, invaded, and speculative figure of the 'crimmigrant other': standardizing criminal suspicion against migrants Part III. Infrastructural Imaginaries of In/Security 6. Policy as Infrastructure: Enacting Artificial Intelligence and Making Europe 7. A remedy for European preparedness deficits? The EU Health Union as a deepening of securitized and pharmaceuticalized health emergency governance Afterword

About the author

Nina Klimburg-Witjes is a university assistant (post-doc) at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Vienna University, Austria.
Paul Trauttmansdorff is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna, Italy.

Summary

This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity.

Product details

• Authors: Nina (Vienna University Klimburg-Witjes
• Assisted by: Nina Klimburg-Witjes (Editor), Paul Trauttmansdorff (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032212326
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221232-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, International institutions, EU & European institutions, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations