40 Security technologies and criticality
Matthias Leese
Introduction
This chapter examines how researchers can juggle being critical whilst engaging with security technologies and their users. Critical security studies scholars have widely engaged with the effects produced by security and have highlighted how some security practices produce or aggravate social injustice, engender violence, or discriminate against individuals or entire groups. Vis-à-vis such concerns, being “critical” comes to mean exercising a form of advocacy on behalf of those who are (sometimes unknowingly) suffering the consequences from security, for example as they are denied crossing a border or boarding an aircraft, as they systematically ...
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