Becoming Unmanned

Manjikian, Mary

doi:10.1080/14616742.2012.746429

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“…Even in the context of physical warfare, with the advancement of technology, there is less need for physical involvement by human beings (Krishnan, 2009). Also, the role of the protector which was traditionally played by men is now assumed by machines (Manjikian, 2014) resulting in lesser need for men at the battlefield (Krishnan, 2009).…”

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Is the Male-to-Female Transgender Travel Experience Similar to Cisgender Female Travel Experience and in What Ways Are They Different

Lakes¹

2023

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This research seeks to understand in what ways the travel experiences of transgender women are different from those of cisgender women. Though much literature is available, they focus only on differences in airport spaces. The purpose of this study is to delve deeply into the lived experience of transgender women travellers by analysing social media content (YouTube) to discover the similarities and differences between the female transgender traveller and the cisgender traveller. The findings suggest that, like cisgender women, transgender women also fear sexual violence while travelling. Transgender women also love to engage in cultural activities such as cooking and homestay, similar to their cisgender counterparts. Unlike cisgender women, transgender women are more culturally sensitive, and try to blend in through the use of cultural artefacts such as clothing, and by attempting to learn and speak the language. However, limits to blending in exists based on the extent of ‘passability’ and success. The absence of attention in their home country means that transgender women seek more attention from countries that display tolerance. In terms of their perception of poverty, they, like many other individuals from wealthy nations, believe that poverty is associated with nobility and that poor people are actually happy. Overall, the research indicated that while transgender women travellers are similar to cisgender women in many ways, there are some differences.

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Is the Male-to-Female Transgender Travel Experience Similar to Cisgender Female Travel Experience and in What Ways Are They Different

Lakes¹

2023

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“…Research on these practices has, in turn, often worked around silences. The more tangible aspects of attacks has been focused on, such as the new drone technology (Kindervater, 2016; Manjikian, 2014; Wilcox, 2017) and information has been recovered by drawing on interviews, leaked documents or freedom of information requests. Silence is encountered as a hurdle that creates difficulty in understanding drone warfare because governance ‘categorically refuses to reveal the evidence’ (Heller, 2013: 104; Sterio, 2012).…”

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Fighting silence covert warfare and the uphill battle against the unsaid

Schweiger

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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Silences around drone warfare and similar covert state practices have often been encountered as a hurdle that hinders us from understanding and interrogating government acts. Scholars as well as human rights actors have opposed silences in a struggle for greater transparency and have called on governments to speak. Through the case study of drone warfare, this paper analyses the productive role of silences and the political struggle to oppose it. Analysing 125 non-governmental organisation (NGO) reports, UN documents and policy papers, this article investigates how silences are encountered, interpreted and opposed by Western human rights actors. This shows that silence is not encountered as a discrete unit but as interdependent layers of denial, partial withholding of information, redactions, delays, lack of oversight and so on. Situated within unequal power relations, I show how the battle against the unsaid is itself based on what has (not) been heard in Western constructions of drone warfare and risks further enabling violent practices. Discussing ways of subverting the workings of silence, the paper not only contributes to academic literature on covert warfare and silence but also speaks to the practical dilemmas faced by non-state actors who are advocating for more transparency.

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“…Drones may invoke images of war and violence, as well as connotations of privacy invasion and surveillance. Drones, as a phenomenon, have become at least partially anchored in representations that accentuate the more menacing properties of the technology [2]. Some analysts emphasize how drones are involved in a larger 'surveillant assemblage' [3] and how "the figure of the drone is useful because it offers a highly visible and controversial example of the deployment of networked surveillance and quasi-automated response and suggests the ways in which the implementation of drone logic across disparate spheres of social practice partakes of the military-inflected rationalization of everyday life" [4: 21].…”

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Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone

Bødker

Olofsson²,

Clemmensen

2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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In the paper we offer a story of re-figuring a consumer drone as a way of "living with monsters". If drones are "monstrous", what potentials might lie in re-framing them as more benign, civic, or even perhaps enchanted? Based on a field study of work at a makerspace, we present re-figuring as a process of reflecting, interacting and imagining the function of a drone, using gradually developing intuitions as well as an emergent felt 'sense' of the drone in practice. Using an analytic trajectory broadly based on philosophies of affect, we suggest how felt relations to technology can potentially become further involved in a critical move towards re-figuring "monstrous" technologies.

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Becoming Unmanned

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Is the Male-to-Female Transgender Travel Experience Similar to Cisgender Female Travel Experience and in What Ways Are They Different

Is the Male-to-Female Transgender Travel Experience Similar to Cisgender Female Travel Experience and in What Ways Are They Different

Fighting silence covert warfare and the uphill battle against the unsaid

Re-figuring Gilbert the Drone

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