Article ID: CBB426371173

Airport security as translation through division and movement (February 2022)

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Based on an ethnographic research at Václav Havel Airport Prague, this article explores how contemporary airport security might by studied using an ANT-inspired approach. Security provision can be understood as a set of chains of translation that produces security and threat. Incoming actors, whose statuses are initially indeterminate, are translated into secure or threatening ones. This framing enables the uncovering of division and movement as the logics guide the system performance. The use of this perspective enables us to explicate the system’s functioning in practice, including its inherent challenges and social consequences.

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Authors & Contributors
Lin, Wen-yuan
Tehya Stockman
Ernst van der Wal
Moats, David
Tom Heale
Pezzani, Lorenzo
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Actor-network theory
Boundaries
Mobility
Ethnography
Airports
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Germany
Europe
Heathrow Airport
Poland
Norway
Greece
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