Science, technology, security: Towards critical collaboration

Science and technology play a central role in the contemporary governance of security, both as tools for the production of security and as objects of security concern. Scholars are increasingly seeking to not only critically reflect on the interplays between science, technology and security, but als...

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Published in:Social studies of science 2021-04, Vol.51 (2), p.189-213
Main Authors: Evans, Sam Weiss, Leese, Matthias, Rychnovská, Dagmar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Collaboration
Communities of practice
Community
Governance
Research Article
Science
Science and technology
Security
Security Measures
Sociology of science
Technology
Vignettes
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Summary:Science and technology play a central role in the contemporary governance of security, both as tools for the production of security and as objects of security concern. Scholars are increasingly seeking to not only critically reflect on the interplays between science, technology and security, but also engage with the practices of security communities that shape and are shaped by science and technology. To further help this growth of interest in security topics within science and technology studies (STS), we explore possible modes of socio-technical collaboration with security communities of practice. Bringing together literatures from STS and critical security studies, we identify several key challenges to critical social engagement of STS scholars in security-related issues. We then demonstrate how these challenges played out over the course of three case studies from our own experience in engaging security communities of practice. We use these vignettes to show that there is a rich vein of developments in both theory and practice that STS scholars can pursue by attending to the interplay of science, technology and security.
ISSN:0306-3127
1460-3659
DOI:10.1177/0306312720953515