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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.
