Biopolitics of security in the 21st century: an introduction

Dillon, Michael; Lobo-Guerrero, Luis

doi:10.1017/s0260210508008024

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“…a) The location and interpretation of data b) Informed consent, privacy and the de-identification of data ETHICAL ISSUES AND DILEMMAS 4 c) The management, classification and storage of data Such ethical issues are not unique to education, and similar debates relating to the use of data to inform decisions and interventions are also found in the health sector (Cooper, 2009;Dolan, 2008;Snaedal, 2002), human resource management (Cokins, 2009), talent management (Davenport, Harris, & Shapiro, 2010), homeland security (Seifert, 2004), and biopolitics (Dillon & Loboguerrero, 2008). Of specific concern here are the implications of viewing learning analytics as moral practice, recognizing students as participatory agents with developmental and temporal identities and learning trajectories and the need for reciprocal transparency.…”

Section: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas 3 Learning Analytics: Ethical Ismentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Analytics

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Prinsloo

2013

American Behavioral Scientist

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The field of learning analytics has the potential to enable higher education institutions to increase their understanding of their students' learning needs and to use that understanding to positively influence student learning and progression. Analysis of data relating to students and their engagement with their learning is the foundation of this process. There is an inherent assumption linked to learning analytics that knowledge of a learner's behavior is advantageous for the individual, instructor and educational provider. It seems intuitively obvious that a greater understanding of a student cohort and of the learning designs and interventions to which they best respond would be of benefit to students and, in turn, for the retention and success rate of the institution. Yet, such collection of data and its use faces a number of ethical challenges, including issues of the location and interpretation of data; informed consent, privacy and the de-identification of data; and the classification and management of data.Approaches taken to understand the opportunities and ethical challenges of learning analytics necessarily depend on a range of ideological assumptions and epistemologies. This paper proposes a socio-critical perspective on the use of learning analytics. Such an approach highlights the role of power, the impact of surveillance, the need for transparency and an acknowledgment that student identity is a transient, temporal and context-bound construct.

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Section: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas 3 Learning Analytics: Ethical Ismentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Analytics

Slade

Prinsloo

2013

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…These practices thrive on security threats with complex emergent qualities that infuse the security environment with uncertainty (Aradau and van Munster, 2012;Dillon, 2007;Dillon and Lobo-Guerrero, 2008;Dillon and Reid, 2009). Furthermore, resilience speak to two 'turns' in critical security scholarship: the complexity turn, which signifies an appropriation of insights and methods from complexity theory in social theory (Urry, 2005), and the material turn, which explores how power is constructed and exercised by and through material objects (Aradau, 2010;Connolly, 2013).…”

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Resilience and (in)security: Practices, subjects, temporalities

2015

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Diverse, sometimes even contradictory concepts and practices of resilience have proliferated into a wide range of security policies. In introducing this special issue, we problematize and critically discuss how these forms of resilience change environments, create subjects, link temporalities, and redefine relations of security and insecurity. We show the increased attention -scholarly as well as political -given to resilience in recent times and provide a review of the state of critical security studies literature on resilience. We argue that to advance this discussion, resilience needs to be conceptualized and investigated in plural terms. We use temporalities and subjectivities as key analytical aspects to investigate the plural instantiations of resilience in actual political practice. These two issues -subjectivity and temporality -form the overall context for the special issue and are core themes for all the articles collected here.

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“…Following Foucault (2004; we might summarise the issues as follows: First of all, life is characterised by its mutability and therefore its potential to outstrip any regulatory framework that is placed upon or around it. Security cannot therefore afford to be too rigid or based on fixed entities with known properties (see also Dillon and Lobo-Guerrero 2008). Second, the regulation of life always needs to be mindful of the requirement for living organisms to transact with their environments in order to live.…”

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Differentiated Circuits: The Ecologies of Knowing and Securing Life

Hinchliffe

Lavau

2013

Environ Plan D

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The question of how to make life secure in a world of zoonotic disease threats is often answered in terms of an ever-tighter regulation of wild, domestic, and human life, as a means to control disease. Conversely, in both theoretical and practical engagements with the business of making life safe, there is recognition of the circulatory and excessive qualities of life, its ability to overflow grids of intelligibility, and a requirement for knowledge practices to be responsive to a mutable world. In this paper we use empirical work on the field and laboratory practices involved in knowing life, specifically within the UK's avian influenza wild bird survey, in order to argue strongly for a form of biosecurity that does not seek to integrate life or the practices that make it intelligible into grids and closed circuits. Extending work by Latour, we argue that the truth-value of life science not only stems from the circulation of references along a single chain of reference; it is also dependent upon the productive alliance of knowledge forms and practices that are loosely brought together in this process. By demonstrating the range of practices, materials, and movements involved in making life knowable, we claim that it is the spatial configurations of knowledge practices, organisms, and materials, their ongoing differentiation and not their integration, that make safe life a possibility.

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Biopolitics of security in the 21st century: an introduction

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