PLATFORM WARS’ Jasper van der Kist has co-authored a new peer-reviewed article for International Political Sociology, together with Klaudia Klonowska, Sofie van der Maarel, Natalie Welfens and Ruben van de Ven. In “Collective Discussion: Sensing Security”, they explore how sensor technologies mediate security practices across fields such as policing, borders, migration, military operations and warfare.
The article shifts attention away from sensors as neutral tools of detection. Instead, it shows how technologies such as cameras, biometric systems, speech biometry, military interfaces and algorithmic tools actively shape what becomes visible, what is filtered out, and how certain people, objects or behaviors come to be understood as security threats.
Jasper van der Kist’s contribution focuses on speech biometry in refugee status determination processes. It examines how linguistic identities are made perceptible to decision-makers through technological mediation, and how this has direct implications for the ways asylum seekers are able to present themselves as political-legal subjects.
The article ultimately calls for a deeper understanding of how security is made perceptible and actionable through mediated practices, and how sensing technologies participate in the production of power relations.
The full article can be accessed here
