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Claudia Aradau is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across social sciences with a particular focus on sociology and political science, clinical psychology, information systems, political science and international relations, and safety research.

Their work addresses several main topics including global security and public health, migration, refugees and integration, migration, health and trauma, COVID-19 digital contact tracing, sex work and related issues, intelligence, security, war strategy, and the ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Sarah Perret, Tobias Blanke, Emma Mc Cluskey, Lucrezia Canzutti, and Nicholas De Genova.

Publications have appeared regularly in several venues, with multiple papers published in:

  • Review of International Studies
  • Geopolitics
  • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • Science Technology & Human Values
  • Global Studies Quarterly

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Claudia Aradau include:

  • "Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones" (2020, Geopolitics)
  • "The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity" (2022, Review of International Studies)
  • "Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders" (2022, Big Data & Society)
  • "Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint" (2021, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space)
  • "Algorithmic Surveillance and the Political Life of Error" (2021, Journal for the History of Knowledge)

Best Publications

  • Governing Terrorism Through Risk: Taking Precautions, (un)Knowing the Future:

    Claudia Aradau;Rens Van Munster

  • Security and the democratic scene: desecuritization and emancipation

    Claudia Aradau

  • Security that matters: critical infrastructure and objects of protection

    Claudia Aradau

  • The perverse politics of four-letter words: Risk and pity in the securitisation of human trafficking

    Claudia Aradau

  • Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown

    Claudia Aradau;Rens van Munster

  • Critical Approaches to Security in Europe: A Networked Manifesto

    C. Aradau;T. Balzacq;T. Basaran

  • Critical methods in International Relations: The politics of techniques, devices and acts

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans

  • Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics out of Security

    Claudia Aradau

  • Security, technologies of risk, and the political: Guest editors' introduction

    Claudia Aradau;Luis Lobo-Guerrero;Rens Van Munster

  • Exceptionalism and the ‘War On Terror’ Criminology Meets International Relations

    Claudia Aradau;Rens van Munster

  • Questioning security devices: Performativity, resistance, politics

    Anthony Amicelle;Claudia Aradau;Julien Jeandesboz

  • The promise of security: resilience, surprise and epistemic politics

    Claudia Aradau

  • Acts of European citizenship: a political sociology of mobility

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • Acts of European Citizenship: A Political Sociology of Mobility

    Claudia Aradau;Jef Huysmans;Vicki Squire

  • Politics of prediction: Security and the time/space of governmentality in the age of big data

    Claudia Aradau;Tobias Blanke

  • The (Big) Data-security assemblage: Knowledge and critique

    Claudia Aradau;Tobias Blanke

  • Law transformed: Guantánamo and the ‘other’ exception

    Claudia Aradau

  • Taming the future: The dispositif of risk in the war on terror

    Claudia Aradau;Rens van Munster

  • The Time/Space of Preparedness: Anticipating the “Next Terrorist Attack”

    Claudia Aradau;Rens van Munster

  • Biopolitics Multiple: Migration, Extraction, Subtraction:

    Claudia Aradau;Martina Tazzioli

  • Governing others: Anomaly and the algorithmic subject of security

    Claudia Aradau;Tobias Blanke

  • Governing Circulation: A Critique of the Biopolitics of Security

    Claudia Aradau;Tobias Blanke

  • Insuring Terrorism, Assuring Subjects, Ensuring Normality: The Politics of Risk After 9/11

    Claudia Aradau;Rens van Munster

Frequent Co-Authors

Jef Huysmans
Jef Huysmans Queen Mary University of London
Vicki Squire
Vicki Squire University of Warwick
Martina Tazzioli
Martina Tazzioli University of Bologna
Ole Wæver
Ole Wæver University of Copenhagen
Didier Bigo
Didier Bigo Sciences Po
William Walters
William Walters Carleton University
Mark B. Salter
Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa
Marieke de Goede
Marieke de Goede University of Amsterdam
Christian Bueger
Christian Bueger University of Copenhagen

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