*** Apologies for crossposting *** Please share widely & don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any questions! Best wishes, Winnie and Norma --------------------------- CfP: Cybersecurity & digital territory: Nation, identity, and citizenship Submission deadline: Feb 21, 2016 through conference website http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3929 4S/EASST 2016 Barcelona Society for the Social Studies of Science Convenors Norma Möllers (Queen's University), norma.mollers@queensu.ca Winifred Poster (Washington University, St. Louis), wposter@wustl.edu Abstract Although cybersecurity concerns predate the popularization of the Internet in the 1990s, governments across the world have only begun relatively recently to create specialized policies and organizations dedicated to cybersecurity. These in turn points to some contradictory processes in internet governance: the facilitation of exchange across borders on the one hand, and increased state intervention and regulation on the other hand. Such interventions include, among other things, massive systems of information gathering and surveillance, both on national populations and across borders. In the process, citizens are conceived of as data subjects, where tensions of nationhood are played out, identified, and remedied. Against this backdrop, renewed state intervention can be understood as efforts to territorialize the seemingly 'borderless' world of cyberspace, targeting a range of intersecting concerns about national economies, national security, or citizenship. At the same time, in discourses of cybersecurity, constructions of 'viruses' or 'pirates' as threats to nation states are often deeply gendered and racialized, raising questions about the larger conditions which shape configurations of cybersecurity practices, technologies, and regulations. The aim of this session is to explore cybersecurity as it configures and touches upon intersecting issues of national (in)security, national economy, or citizenship. We particularly welcome feminist, critical race, and post-colonial perspectives on cybersecurity, including the role of bodies, identities, and labors in implementation, targets and outcomes. We also welcome perspectives on the 'invisible work' involved in infrastructure maintenance and repair, as well as perspectives on failures, breakdowns, and how these are exploited by marginalized groups. _______________________________________ Dr. Winifred R. Poster International Studies/International Affairs Program Washington University, St. Louis Campus Box 1085 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 www.winifredposter.com wposter@wustl.edu (backup: wrposter@gmail.com)