Toys for the Boys? Drones, Pleasure and Popular Culture in the Militarisation of Policing

Salter, Michael

doi:10.1007/s10612-013-9213-4

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“…This finding shows that drone usage does not concern all members of society equally, thus causing us again to question over the supposed democratisation of the aerial gaze. Drones are "toys for the boys", as Salter puts it (Salter, 2014).…”

Section: Societal Diffusion Of Dronesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big data from the sky: popular perceptions of private drones in Switzerland

Klauser

Pedrozo

2017

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Camera-fitted drones are now easily affordable for the public. The resulting extension of the vertical gaze raises a series of critical questions, ranging from the changing regimes of visibility and control that characterise today's world of "big data from the sky" to the novel opportunities, risks, and power dynamics hence implied. The paper addresses these issues empirically, focussing on the popular perception of commercial and hobby drones in Switzerland. This provides a deeper understanding of the driving forces and obstacles that shape current drone developments and highlights that the societal diffusion of private drones today transforms the very ways in which the aerial realm is lived and perceived, as a highly contested space of risks, opportunities, and power. This discussion is rooted in a research approach that places questions of power and (air-)space at the centre when approaching the drone problematic.

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Section: Societal Diffusion Of Dronesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big data from the sky: popular perceptions of private drones in Switzerland

Klauser

Pedrozo

2017

Geogr. Helv.

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“…Billitteri 2010 ), less attention has been paid to their civil counterparts. Many authors have highlighted issues with reference to civil liberties, particularly privacy, surveillance, and militaristic policing (Bracken-Roche et al 2014 ; Finn et al 2014 ; Finn and Wright 2014 ; Galliot 2012 ; Gersher 2013 ; Hayes et al 2014 ; Jones 2014 ; Salter 2014 ; Straub 2014 ; Urquhart 2013 ). Some studies have explored the relationship between civil and military drone development (Boucher 2014b ; Sparrow 2012 ).…”

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‘You Wouldn’t have Your Granny Using Them’: Drawing Boundaries Between Acceptable and Unacceptable Applications of Civil Drones

Boucher

2015

Sci Eng Ethics

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Some industry and policy actors are concerned about public opposition to civil drones, in particular because of their association with military drones. However, very little is understood about public reactions to the technology. Strategies to ‘manage public acceptance’ have so far relied upon several untested assumptions. We conducted public engagement activities to explore citizens’ visions of civil drones. Several insights counteracted the prevailing assumptions. Rejecting the notion of blanket support for or opposition to civil drones, we found that citizens make nuanced decisions about the acceptability of civil drones depending upon the purpose of the flight and the actors involved. The results are positioned in support for calls to strengthen the role of citizens in civil drone development and, in particular, to shift away from the current focus on citizens’ acceptance of civil drone development towards the development of civil drones that are acceptable to citizens.

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“…Militarism and militarization are paradoxical, though; for example, alongside popular support for the UK armed forces, we see ongoing recruitment difficulties and waning support for the idea of overseas military intervention. A wealth of recent scholarship seeking to define and explain the causes and consequences of militarism and militarization has burgeoned across disciplines as diverse as international relations (Stavrianakis and Selby 2012), human geography (Woodward 2005;Rech et al 2015), feminist studies (Enloe 2000;Stern and Zalewski 2009;Mohanty 2011;Åhäll 2016;Wibben 2018) criminology (Kraska 2007;Salter 2014;Evans 2017), sociology (Shaw 1991;Martino 2012;McSorley 2012) and, of most relevance to the current article, CMS (Enloe 2015;Agathangelou 2017;Massé, Lunstrum, and Holterman 2017). Broadening and deepening formulations of militarism derived from earlier literatures (Liebknecht and Sirnis 1972), allied work has identified the spatially and temporally diffuse character of militarization (Hyde 2016) that can play out at the level of everyday commodities (Turse 2008;Jackson 2017) and assume both subtle and hidden forms (Giroux 2004;Kallender and Hughes 2018).…”

Section: Context and Concepts: Militarism And Militarizationmentioning

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Militarization, stigma, and resistance: negotiating military reservist identity in the civilian workplace

Higate

Dawes

Edmunds

et al. 2019

Critical Military Studies

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Set against the backdrop of the British Government's Future Reserves 2020 (FR2020) programme, this article addresses military reservists' experiences of how they are perceived by civilian colleagues in the workplace. Drawing on qualitative interviews with reservists, it analyses their understandings of civilian co-workers' qualified and sometimes reluctant acceptance in light of FR2020's implicit aim to use reservists to help realign civil-military relationships. While it appears that civilian work colleagues' social distancing of reservists helps consolidate the wider public's perceived lack of understanding of the British armed forces, a more critical view sees reservists' largely unchallenged presence in the workplace as an exemplary, yet subtle instance of militarization. This is because reservists' simultaneous (physical) inclusion and (social) distancing or stigmatization constitutes, and is constitutive of, their need to pass as civilian. In conclusion, we argue that a key implication of their passing as civilian is to neutralize debate of the legitimacyor otherwiseof the armed forces as an institution tasked with violence on behalf of the state.

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Toys for the Boys? Drones, Pleasure and Popular Culture in the Militarisation of Policing

Cited by 41 publications

References 30 publications

Big data from the sky: popular perceptions of private drones in Switzerland

Big data from the sky: popular perceptions of private drones in Switzerland

‘You Wouldn’t have Your Granny Using Them’: Drawing Boundaries Between Acceptable and Unacceptable Applications of Civil Drones

Militarization, stigma, and resistance: negotiating military reservist identity in the civilian workplace

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