State terrorism: orientalism and the drone programme

Espinoza, Marina Vieira

doi:10.1080/17539153.2018.1456725

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“…Dynamics of securitisation, surveillance, and fear have been created via the production of a regime that senior members of the forest department call a form of ‘psychological terror’ – a phenomenon closely documented in the literature on drone warfare (Afxentiou 2018; Espinoza 2018). The ‘spectacle’ of fear within the CTR is configured through everyday conservation practices.…”

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Between monitoring and surveillance: Geographies of emerging drone technologies in contemporary conservation

Millner,

Newport,

Sandbrook

et al. 2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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Conservation has employed technologies for monitoring and visual capture since its inception in the nineteenth century. Since then, the capacities of conservation technologies have developed considerably, affording a wide range of data relating to ecological change and biodiversity loss. However, new technologies introduce fresh ethical and political issues into environmental protection, especially as they can be used – deliberately or accidentally – to collect information about human activities. This potential is important, given that many areas of biodiversity protection are also areas of longstanding conflict. We focus here on the political and ethical implications surrounding drones, which collect photographic and video footage that can include images of humans. We review approaches to technology, visuality, and surveillance across and beyond environmental geography over the last two decades, teasing out conceptual approaches that support a nuanced and critical analysis of conservation drones. Our analysis focuses on the ways that conservation drones alter (i) processes of decision-making, (ii) dynamics of fearmongering and control, (iii) processes of securitisation in protected areas, (iv) the production and circulation of (racial) stereotypes, and (v) the practices and outcomes of data justice. We unpack these themes through three case studies from our own fieldwork, clarifying the range of intentional and non-intentional political outcomes that emerge, and ethical themes that will be vital to explore further in the future.

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Section: Volumetric Environmental Spaces: Case Studiesmentioning

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Between monitoring and surveillance: Geographies of emerging drone technologies in contemporary conservation

Millner,

Newport,

Sandbrook

et al. 2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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“…Por ello, en oposición a esas ideas simplificadoras de la realidad, se admite que, bajo el capitalismo, la tecnología adquiere un carácter contradictorio, pudiendo constituirse como un baluarte del progreso o de la barbarie. Es decir, además del problema del acceso desigual, el conocimiento tecnocientífico puede servir tanto para la creación de vacunas como para la creación de tecnologías de control y exterminio, como las que utilizó el Estado nazi alemán durante el siglo XX o como las que se utilizan en ocupaciones neocoloniales (Espinoza, 2018;Wilcox, 2016).…”

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Contribuciones para una mirada marxista acerca de los usos de la tecnología bajo el capitalismo

Miranda

2022

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Work is central to Marxist analysis, where it is considered indispensable for social reproduction. In the contemporary world, discussions on so-called digital capitalism and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the working environment have brought new challenges for researchers, especially after the economic divisions created by the new worldwide pandemic. Digitization of the working environment and technological progress have been accompanied by precariousness in workers’ living conditions. On the one hand, workers are being driven towards informality while, on the other, the mechanisms for managing and controlling work processes are losing their recognized forms. In this article we discuss the impact of techno-scientific advancement on the lives of workers in view of the contradiction between capital and in the digital world. Our aim is to offer several reflections on the importance of the formal teaching-learning process, especially in higher education institutions, in order to meet the challenges presented by digital capitalism. We assume the adoption of a Marxist perspective in debates on science, technology and society to be an important milestone in the struggle to produce scientific knowledge that is committed to achieving collective well-being and real improvements in workers’ lives.

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“…At a 2013 NGO meeting, one researcher who attended "counted dozens of science fiction references among the campaigners"; however, the "campaigners went to pains to avoid such references in their official documents, insisting on the real and present danger posed by genuine developments in military technology" (Carpenter 2016: 53). And we see the real and present danger of these developments with the rise of drone technology that tracks, surveils, and targets military personnel and civilians alike (see Espinoza 2018;Parks 2016;Shah 2012).…”

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Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia

Magnet

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2022

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Though sex, gender, and sexuality have been subject to ongoing forms of state scrutiny and, therefore, concern surveillance studies scholars—one can think of McCarthy and the policing of homosexuality and the current forms of homophobia and cisgenderism structuring bathroom, sport, and “Don’t Say Gay” laws in the US—there is a glaring lack of attention paid to the violent (colonial) state, legal, and medical projects that surveil intersex people’s body-minds with the (eugenic) goal of eradicating intersex variations to make sex, gender, and sexuality “legible,” dyadic. There is a lack of attention paid to intersex issues in mainstream media as well as from surveillance studies scholars. As a result, as scholars reflect backward over the decades of scholarship in surveillance studies in this anniversary issue of Surveillance & Society, we posit that it is time to use the refined tools surveillance studies offers in service of opposing the often-ignored ongoing surveillance—and killing project—of intersex people’s unique sex traits. In doing so, we focus our attention on surgical interventions, medical photography, and the reproductive technology preimplantation genetic diagnosis. These three case studies offer a sampling of the various ways intersex variations are surveilled and eradicated, and, therefore, signal the importance of integrating intersex issues into feminist surveillance studies. To conclude, we address how intersex activists find each other and propel their activism—activism that combats the surveiling and regulating nature of state and medical-sanctioned interphobia—into the mainstream via information and communication technologies. And yet, there remains so much work to be done. We end on the cautionary note that the ways that intersex activists’ work is routinely stymied and undermined by state and medical forces must be considered.

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State terrorism: orientalism and the drone programme

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Between monitoring and surveillance: Geographies of emerging drone technologies in contemporary conservation

Between monitoring and surveillance: Geographies of emerging drone technologies in contemporary conservation

Contribuciones para una mirada marxista acerca de los usos de la tecnología bajo el capitalismo

Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia

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