Guest speaker : Mareile Kaufmann
Mareile Kaufmann is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. She holds a PhD in Criminology from Hamburg University. Neighboring disciplines such as critical security studies and cultural sciences equally shape her research agenda, which focuses on the meeting point between societal security and security technologies.
Summary
Surveillance, profiling, deviant behavior, risk management and policing– many phenomena relevant to criminological study seem to be subject to increased digitization. But how can we grasp and conceptualize the digital? A critical analysis of digital practices and phenomena needs to disassemble what the affordances of the digital are and what its relationship to the social is in order to discuss its multiple effects and roles within society. This talk suggests a critical approach to the digital through the notion of politics: not only is there a political dimension to most digital practices, but there is also a politics of the digital. Through a theoretical examination of the digital, of its characteristics and its relation to governance the presentation seeks to inspire a discussion across a broad range of criminological research fields.
Conférence présentée par le Centre international de criminologie comparée
