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Chair: Dr Amanda Chisholm, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies / Researcher in Gender and Security
Speaker: Clemens Binder, PhD candidate at the University of Vienna and visiting student at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
One of the major trends in the EU’s politics of border and mobility control is the increasing application of technological infrastructures and devices. This dependence on technologies in a central area of policy interest for the bloc has fueled the development of “state-of-the-art” devices. Funds for the research and development of security technologies in the context of the EU’s Research Framework Programmes have been increasing and make up 50% of security research funding in the EU. Against this backdrop, the question arises how the development of devices enacts, produces and shapes politics and practices at the border.
This talk addresses the interdependence between research politics and border politics and investigates how research programmes and projects are shaped by and simultaneously shape policies of border control. In doing this, this talk explores how specific, often violent and exclusionary forms of the border become perpetuated through R&D and additionally examines the gaps between the desired and actual input of the research projects.
Bio
Clemens Binder is a researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and a doctoral student at the University of Vienna, funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was a visiting student at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, from September to December 2021. In his work, Clemens engages with the intersections of the politics of border and mobility control and the politics of Research and Development of security technologies.
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