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Making pushbacks public: Secrecy, material witnesses and devices of dis/appearance 公开抵制:保密、重要证人和不露面的手段

1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231189389

Georgios Glouftsios

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Viral sites: The oligoptical power of emergency operations centres (EOCs) 病毒站点:应急行动中心(EOCs)的弱光功率

1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231187528

Stefan Elbe

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Transnationally entangled (in)securities: The UAE, Turkey, and the Saharan political economy of danger 跨国证券纠缠:阿联酋、土耳其和撒哈拉危险的政治经济

1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231186942

Eva Magdalena Stambøl, Tobias Berger

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Locating infrastructural agency: Computer protocols at the finance/security nexus 定位基础设施机构:财务/安全联系的计算机协议

IF 3.2 1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231187267

Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Moritz Hütten

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The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex's Risk Analysis. 边境安全的(间)视觉政治:通过Frontex的风险分析共同构成性别和种族。

IF 3.2 1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231182314

Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Julia Sachseder, Saskia Stachowitsch

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Upholding disciplinary whiteness: The #SdScandal, gender and international relations’ critical turn 坚守纪律白人:#SdScandal、性别与国际关系的关键转折

IF 3.2 1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231182800

Alison Howell, Melanie Richter-Montpetit

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The strange resilience of the UK e-Borders programme: Technology hype, failure and lock-in in border control 英国电子订单计划的奇怪弹性：技术炒作、失败和边境管制的锁定

IF 3.2 1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-07-22 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231182833

C. Boswell, James Besse

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A subaltern gaze on White ignorance, (in)security and the possibility of educating the White rescue plans 对白人的无知、安全和教育白人救援计划的可能性的一种次等的凝视

IF 3.2 1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-06-16 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231165660

F. Sajjad

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The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’ 伊斯兰共和国统治下的日常暴力:“随意开火”

IF 3.2 1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-05-08 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231156694

K. Soleimani, A. Mohammadpour

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Settler colonial counterinsurgency: Indigenous resistance and the more-than-state policing of #NoDAPL 定居者殖民反叛乱:土著抵抗和超越国家的#NoDAPL警务

IF 3.2 1区社会学

Security Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/09670106231159207

Bruno Seraphin

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