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Technology and Agency in International Relations

Technology and Agency in International Relations

Author: Marijn Hoijtink; Matthias Leese
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138615397
Published In: April 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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