Technology and Agency in International Relations
Technology accelerates, automates, and exercises capabilities that are greater than human abilities. And yet, within International Relations, the role of technology remains under-studied. This edited volume by Marijn Hoijtink and Matthias Leese responds to this gap with a series of empirically rich and pertinent chapters on the future of warfare, satellite imagery of North Korea, the US’ drone program, blockchains and finance, predictive policing and border management databases, and more.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – How (not) to talk about technology: International Relations and the question of agency
Matthias Leese & Marijn Hoijtink
Chapter 2 – Co-production: The study of productive processes at the level of materiality and discourse
Katja Lindskov Jacobsen & Linda Monsees
Chapter 3 – Configuring warfare: Automation, control, agency
Matthias Leese
Chapter 4 – Security and technology: Unraveling the politics in satellite imagery of North Korea
Philipp Olbrich
Chapter 5 – Vision, visuality and agency in the US drone program
Alex Edney-Browne
Chapter 6 – What does technology do? Blockchains, co-Production, and extensions of liberal market governance in Anglo-American finance
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
Chapter 7 – Who connects the dots? Agents and agency in predictive policing
Mareile Kaufmann
Chapter 8 – Designing digital borders: The Visa Information System (VIS)
Georgios Glouftsios
Chapter 9 – Technology, agency, critique: An interview with Claudia Aradau
Claudia Aradau, Marijn Hoijtink & Matthias Leese