The many lives of border automation: Turbulence, coordination and care

Autor: Debbie Lisle, Michael Bourne
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Lisle, D & Bourne, M 2019, ' The many lives of border automation: Turbulence, co-ordination and care ', Social Studies of Science, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 682-706 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312719870868
ISSN: 1460-3659
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Popis: Automated borders promise instantaneous, objective and accurate decisions that efficiently filter the growing mass of mobile people and goods into safe and dangerous categories. We critically interrogate that promise by looking closely at how UK and European border agents reconfigure automated borders through their sense-making activities and everyday working practices. We are not interested in rehearsing a pro- vs. anti-automation debate, but instead illustrate how both positions reproduce a powerful anthropocentrism that effaces the entanglements and coordinations between humans and nonhumans in border spaces. Drawing from fieldwork with customs officers, immigration officers and airport managers at a UK and a European airport, we illustrate how border agents navigate a turbulent ‘cycle’ of automation that continually overturns assumed hierarchies between humans and technology. The coordinated practices engendered by institutional culture, material infrastructures, drug loos and sniffer dogs cannot be captured by a reductive account of automated borders as simply confirming or denying a predetermined, data-driven in/out decision.
Databáze: OpenAIRE