Taking the Trouble: Science, Technology and Security Studies

Rocco Bellanova; Katja  Lindskov Jacobsen; Linda  Monsees

doi:10.1080/21624887.2020.1839852

Taking the Trouble: Science, Technology and Security Studies

Rocco Bellanova
, Katja Lindskov Jacobsen
, Linda Monsees

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Abstract

A multitude of new research themes and objects, especially technological innovations and knowledge practices, have come to populate international relations and security politics. Many critical security scholars are engaging theoretical resources from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to make sense of things as diverse as fake news, climate change, financial surveillance, digital images and autonomous targeting systems. This Special Issue unpacks the core challenges and benefits we see when engaging with STS to approach the entanglements of science, technology and (in)security. Embracing the notion of trouble, this introduction draws upon Haraway and Butler, arguing for the need to stay close to the troubles that new research objects pose to the study of security. Taking the trouble can thus be understood as an ethos that makes us open to new research avenues and to the importance of being attentive to how relations of power and emancipation can be established in our research processes. The focus of both the introduction and the Special Issue is on how STS resources might be mobilised. Overall, this Special Issue offers further conceptual, empirical and methodological inputs to the ongoing discussion about the value of STS for the study of security politics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	87-100
Number of pages	14
Journal	Critical Studies on Security
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2020.1839852
Publication status	Published - 3 May 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Rocco Bellanova’s work was carried out in the framework of the research project ‘FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial’, funded by the European Research Council, Grant No. [ERC-2015-CoG 682317]. We would like to thank Kyle Grayson and Shannon Stettner for their precious support. This Special Issue is the offspring of three workshops, organised at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS, Bochum, Germany–October 2018) and at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands–June 2018 and October 2019). These workshops involved researchers studying different security practices from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. We thank all of them and, in particular, Tasniem Anwar and Marieke de Goede for co-organising the June 2018 workshop as well as all contributors to the Special Issue. These conversations were carried out in the framework of two research projects–Digital Technology and World Politics funded by CAIS and led by Dr. Linda Monsees, and ‘FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial’ (Grant No. ERC-2015-CoG 682317) led by Prof. Marieke de Goede.

Funding Information:
We would like to thank Kyle Grayson and Shannon Stettner for their precious support. This Special Issue is the offspring of three workshops, organised at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS, Bochum, Germany – October 2018) and at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands – June 2018 and October 2019). These workshops involved researchers studying different security practices from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. We thank all of them and, in particular, Tasniem Anwar and Marieke de Goede for co-organising the June 2018 workshop as well as all contributors to the Special Issue. These conversations were carried out in the framework of two research projects – Digital Technology and World Politics funded by CAIS and led by Dr. Linda Monsees, and ‘FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial’ (Grant No. ERC-2015-CoG 682317) led by Prof. Marieke de Goede.

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© 2020 York University.

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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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Critical Security Studies (CSS)
science and technology studies (STS)
International Relations

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