This QUALIFIE Working Group session features a presentation by Claudia Aradau, Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London
How can scholars from different disciplines work together to make sense of the entangled worlds of data and security? In this talk, Claudia Aradau explores the development of transdisciplinary, critical methodologies and collaborations for studying datafication as a technical and political process that cuts across algorithmic infrastructures, governance practices, and everyday forms of life.
In an increasingly data-driven world, the practices of datafication and their entanglement with security regimes present challenges for research. From predictive analytics to infrastructures of surveillance and risk, datafication produces new modes of governance that exceed traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Drawing on her work on algorithmic governance and critical approaches to (in)security, Claudia Aradau will discuss how collaborative inquiry can address the methodological and epistemic challenges posed by data-intensive forms of security. She will also discuss how we can approach methods as 'discordance machines'.
Claudia Aradau is Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and Methods Centre Director in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy.
Her current research focuses on how digital technologies reconfigure security and surveillance practices, and how algorithms and machine learning recast relations between security, democracy, and critique.
Her latest book, 'Algorithmic Reason: The New Government of Self and Other' (with Tobias Blanke), won the 2023 Best Book Award from the Science, Technology and Arts in International Relations section of the International Studies Association.
In 2023, Claudia received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Political Sociology Section of the International Studies Association.
She was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded Consolidator Grant ‘Enacting border security in the digital age: Political worlds of data forms, flows and frictions’.
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