Ildikó Zonga Plájás

Biographic Data

ID113439
NAMEIldikó Zonga Plájás
GIVEN NAMESIldikó Zonga
FAMILY NAMEPlájás
SIGNATUREPLÁJÁS I Z
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0002-7153-4048
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Algorithmic security vision

    Open AccessRuben van de Ven, Ildikó Zonga Plájás et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning D…2026References: 39

    More than ever before, security systems are using machine learning algorithms to process images and video feeds, in applications as diverse as facial recognition at the border, movement recognition in urban security settings, or emotion recognition in judicial proceedings. What is at stake in the technical and political transformations brought about by these sociotechnical developments? This article charts the development of a novel set of practi…

  • InterFaces

    Open AccessIldikó Zonga PlájásARTICLESocial Studies of Science2023Cited by: 3References: 13

    This article problematizes vision in practices of identification. It draws on the metaphor of the 'interface' to emphasize that vision emerges 'in between' eyes, faces, bodies, objects and ideas of belonging and otherness. As such, vision can be a material and political technology that enacts certain people as racial others. To attend to the materiality and politics of vision and its messy relationship with race, I bring together three European s…

  • Permanent Temporality

    Open AccessIldikó Zonga PlájásARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2023References: 33

    Documents, in particular identity cards, mediate relationships between individuals and institutions. Their materiality matters and actively impacts how states govern populations and their movements. In this paper, I examine one such object, the Romanian identity card. Focusing on its temporality and agency, I explore how objects and technological procedures enact race. In Romania, people without an address or proof of residence-many of them membe…

  • Composite Method

    Open AccessRyanne Bleumink, Lisette Jong et al.ARTICLEScience & Technology Studies2021

    This paper explores how race comes to matter in the practice of police facial composite drawing. The confidential nature of criminal investigations prevented us from using research material collected through observations of police practices. The authors developed an experimental film project in collaboration with two forensic artists to illuminate the production of (visual) differences in the context of facial composite drawing. We recorded the p…

  • From Consensus to Diffraction

    Ildikó Zonga Plájás, F Ragazzi et al.ARTICLEAnthrovision2020

    How does one map and visualise the complex arrangements of computer vision technologies used in the field of security in a collaborative setting where the research participants come from different scholarly traditions? This paper is an account of how we have attempted to tackle this question, and in the process of doing so, had to overcome challenges linked to the very meaning of collaboration. In a context in which epistemological and ontologica…

  • Knowing “the Roma

    Open AccessIldikó Zonga Plájás, Amade M’charek et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning D…2019Cited by: 12References: 23

    This paper examines ways of knowing “the Roma” as a category of people. It attends to mobility and its obstructions, and the ways that coincide with bureaucratic, institutional, and everyday modes of sorting and racializing groups of people. Our case study is situated in Romania. Whereas “the Roma” do not exist as a category in the Romanian national registry of citizens, mainstream public discourses regarding “Roma migration” have significantly p…