Joining me today is Fiona Greenland, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss some of her recent work on fingerprinting and the origins of surveillance culture in the United States and on pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war. Fiona Greenland is the author of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy (2021).

Articles discussed in this episode: 

Greenland, F. (2022). Fingerprinting, civil codes, and the origins of surveillance culture in the United States. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 

Greenland, F. (2022). Pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war. Media, Culture & Society. 

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL), and under project project no. 313004 – Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE).

Joining me today are Hager Ben Jaffel, Research Associate at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and Sebastian Larsson, Associate Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, to discuss their latest edited volume titled Problematising Intelligence Studies: Towards a New Research Agenda, published in 2022 with Routledge.

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL), and under project project no. 313004 – Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE).

Joining me today is Mareile Kaufmann, Professor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology, at the University of Oslo, to discuss her work over the past few years on surveillance, predictive policing, hackers and secrecy, among others.

Texts discussed in this podcast episode:

Kaufmann, M. 2020. Hacking Surveillance. First Monday 25(5): https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10006

Kaufmann, M. 2021. This is a Secret: Learning from Children’s Engagement With Surveillance and Secrecy. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 21(5):424-437

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15327086211029350

Kaufmann, M. 2019. Who Connects the Dots? Agents and Agency in Predictive Policing In: Hoijtink, Marijn & Leese, Matthias (eds.) Technology and Agency in International Relations. pp. 141-163. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429463143-7/connects-dots-mareile-kaufmann

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL), and under project project no. 313004 – Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE).

Joining me today is Emily West, an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, to discuss her book Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly published in 2022 with The MIT Press.

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL), under project project no. 314486 Digital Prism and the Nordic Model of Workplace Democracy Under Pressure and under project project no. 313004 – Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE).

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Joining me today is Sarah Esther Lageson, Associate Professor at School of Criminal Justice at the Rutgers University, to discuss her book Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice published in 2020 with Oxford University Press.

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL) and under project project no. 313004 – Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE).

Joining me today is Albert Fox Cahn, the founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) to discuss the work of this non-profit advocacy organization and legal service provider based in New York. 

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL) and under project project no. 313004 – Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE).

Joining me today is Sarah Brayne, Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss her book Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing published in 2020 with Oxford University Press.

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL). 

Joining me today is Kate Kenny, Professor of Business and Society at NUI Galway School of Business and Economics, to discuss her book Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory published in 2019 with Harvard University Press.

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313004 – Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE).

Joining me today is Sun-ha Hong, Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, to discuss his latest book Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society published in 2020 with New York University Press.

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL). 

Joining me today is Catherine L. Besteman, Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College, to discuss her latest book Militarized Global Apartheid published in 2020 with Duke University Press.

© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021

Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313626 – Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing: Comparative Perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (AGOPOL).