Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas

Pelizza, Annalisa; Van Rossem, Wouter Rudi

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“…In this sense, population registers are employed to select "deserving" and "desirable" local citizens and raise administrative borders against specific individuals and groups (Gargiulo 2017b). When this happens, population registers are conceived of as security technologies or "apparatuses of classification" (Pelizza and Van Rossem 2023), even though the meaning of security evoked by their use radically changes: it no longer has to do with monitoring and surveillance but with concerns about protection from a hypothetical threat represented by certain categories of people (Gargiulo 2017a).…”

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A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy

Gargiulo

2024

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This article aims to map out the various meanings of security entailed by the different uses and misuses of registration in Italy. As will emerge from this analysis, population registers have been employed either as tools for observing the population and its dynamics or, on the contrary, as devices for identifying its “deserving” members. By drawing this map, this article contributes to the analysis of the “technical shaping of social outcomes” that is at the center of the special issue on the continuum between contingency and obduracy in sociotechnical practices of securitization. Theoretically, population registers are framed in the article as socio-technical and socio-legal devices which embed scripts. As will emerge, they have been historically sub-scribed, de-scribed, or de-inscribed by their users. Methodologically, this analysis relies on a research path focused on registration as a bordering device which has been conducted over the last ten years through several methodological approaches and on a research/action experience which was launched in 2020. Through the author’s participation in a group of political activists, nongovernmental organization members, lawyers, and scholars who are committed to combatting discriminations, original ethnographic, documentary, and discursive data have been collected.

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A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy

Gargiulo

2024

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Acknowledging data‐driven, non‐data, and data‐decentered cultures

Huvila,

Sinnamon

2024

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Contemporary research and innovation policies and advocates of data‐intensive research paradigms continue to urge increased sharing of research data. Such paradigms are underpinned by a pro‐data, normative data culture that has become dominant in the contemporary discourse. Earlier research on research data sharing has directed little attention to its alternatives as more than a deficit. The present study aims to provide insights into researchers' perspectives, rationales and practices of (non‐)sharing of research data in relation to their research practices. We address two research questions, (RQ1) what underpinning patterns can be identified in researchers' (non‐)sharing of research data, and (RQ2) how are attitudes and data‐sharing linked to researchers' general practices of conducting their research. We identify and describe data‐decentered culture and non‐data culture as alternatives and parallels to the data‐driven culture, and describe researchers de‐inscriptions of how they resist and appropriate predominant notions of data in their data practices by problematizing the notion of data, asserting exceptions to the general case of data sharing, and resisting or opting out from data sharing.

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Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy

Pelizza,

Aradau

2024

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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The special issue on Scripts of Security proposes to advance interdisciplinary exchanges between Science and Technology Studies and Critical Security Studies. While performativity, enactment, and intra-action have opened important questions about the messiness of security practices and the contingency of their effects, there has been less attention to the obduracy of institutionalized agency and how continuities and asymmetries of power are reproduced, challenged, and maintained. This Special Issue proposes to revisit and rework the notion of script and the related analytical toolkit to make sense of both contingency and obduracy in the technopolitics of security. The contributions gathered here make three interventions in order to account for contemporary challenges posed by the increasing securitization of diverse sociotechnical practices. Firstly, they update, integrate, and reconfigure the notion of script and its associated toolbox to account for the specificities of security practices. Secondly, the articles revisit critical analyses of security in light of the notion of script. Finally, they show how such an updated notion of script can hold together accounts of contingency and obduracy and not jettison one at the expense of the other.

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Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas

Cited by 3 publications

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A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy

A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy

When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Acknowledging data‐driven, non‐data, and data‐decentered cultures

Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy

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