Technologies of (in)security
Department of criminology and the sociology of law, University of Oslo,
Norway
19 - 20 April 2007
This interdisciplinary international conference aims to provide critical
perspectives in the field of crime control and technology studies. The
conference is an attempt to chart the complex landscapes of surveillance
and social exclusion in an era when social control is increasingly
technologically mediated and articulated across distant boundaries, as
well as marked by various notions of danger and insecurity. The
conference aims to examine a variety of practical and cultural aspects
of technologies of control, as well as the discourses about safety and
security surrounding them. Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world?
How are issues of safety and security constructed and addressed by
various local actors and embodied in a variety of technological systems?
The meanings of technology and (in)security however remain open for
discussion and interpretation by the participants.
We would like to encourage participation from researchers from a broad
range of research fields: criminology and criminal justice, sociology,
media, technology and cultural studies, human rights and privacy, and
other related fields of study.
Abstract deadline: October 31st 2006.
Send title and abstract to Katja Franko Aas ([log in to unmask]).
Website: http://www.jus.uio.no/prosjekter/cctc/conference.html
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