Vasilis Galis
Biographic Data
| ID | 128260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vasilis Galis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vasilis |
| FAMILY NAME | Galis |
| SIGNATURE | GALIS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | IT University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4621-3699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Scientification through privatization: POL-Intel in Denmark
Based on the empirical case of the POL-INTEL platform used by the Danish police, which is a customized version of Palantir Technologies’ Gotham platform, this article traces the interrelation between scientification and policing in the digital era as articulated in and through a private actor. Ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, publicly available policy documents as well as documents detailing police practices, organization, ambitions and workfl…
Citizens’ perspectives on platformisation of police work: A scenario and story-based exploration in Estonia and Sweden
The integration of automated decision-making systems has transformed police work and our understanding of security and surveillance. Despite a growing theoretical literature on shifts in policing due to widespread analytical platform adoption, the public's understanding and perception of these changes are largely unexplored. This study aims to bridge this gap by empirically examining citizens’ perspectives on the new dynamics of police work in tw…
The role of data integration and analysis platforms in contemporary society: An introduction
This introduction to the special issue on data integration and analytics platforms provides an overview of the current importance of these platforms, with particular reference to the market leader, Palantir Technologies. In addition to the platformization of many areas of society through the use of data integration and analytics platforms, we argue that, where Palantir platforms are used, the process of ‘Palantirization’ can also be observed, bec…
A world of Palantir – ontological politics in the Danish police’s POL-Intel
When Palantir Technologies customized the Gotham platform into POL-INTEL, a data integration and analysis platform purchased and used by the Danish police, it also enforced a new ontology that simultaneously shaped the police organization and policing practices. In this context, the concept of ontology should be understood in a twofold, albeit interconnected, way: it stands for its usual philosophical burden, but also refers to a centralized conc…
Platform Labour as a Stepping Stone? Challenging the Dominant Narrative for Danish Housecleaning Platforms
This article problematises the invocation of the stepping stone hypothesis for platform labour by Danish policymakers, namely the argument that digital labour platforms facilitate transitioning to typical employment, especially for groups of vulnerable workers. Tracing the origins of the stepping stone hypothesis back to the international literature on temporary work agencies and workfare policies triggered by neoliberal policy shifts, the articl…
Border control technologies: Introduction
This introduction together with the whole special issue on border technologies challenges the limitations of potentially simplistic understandings of contestation, disputes, and political intervention inherent in many accounts of material politics. How do border technologies turn borders into a contested space and how do they come to matter for specific affected communities, especially migrants? How do border technologies manifest hegemonic borde…
Practices of radical digital care: Towards autonomous queer migration
Digital connectivity of queer migrants on the move to Europe plays a crucial role in confronting border regimes, heteronormativity and racist oppression. ICTs at the disposal of queer migrants interrupt the material politics of silence and violence. However, digital technology also implies serious hazards. Queer migrants use digital space to empower themselves, to build networks, and to trace, reach and create safer spaces of care. This paper con…
Migration Mobile: Border Dissidence, Sociotechnical Resistance, and the Construction of Irregularized Migrants
This open access book offers an account of the very different technologies implicated in border crossing and migration management. Borders have been sites of contestations and struggles over who belongs and who does not, who is and is not allowed to move freely in transnational or national spaces. Embedded as they are in the bordering process, policing and security practices produce the irregularity and illegitimacy of the migrating subject. At t…
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring For (Big) Data
Anna is one of the initiators to, and research leader of, "the Asylum Commission" (https
Analog flows in digital worlds: Migration multiples' and digital heterotopias in Greek territory
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring for Data
The discreet charm of activeness: The Vain Construction of Efficient Smart Grid Users
Activeness is a key concept in smart grid visions, but little is known of what this activeness entails. By combing the literature on marketisation/performativity with critical consumption studies, we outline our findings from a case study of a smart grid project in Sweden. Using a mixed method methodology, we critically approach various tensions, doubts and frictions that occur in the process of constructing ‘activeness.’ For decades, the design …
We are all foreigners in an analogue world: Cyber-material alliances in contesting immigration control in Stockholm’s metro system
Public spaces are often contested sites involving the political use of socio-material arrangements to check, control and filter the flow of people. In Sweden, the recently established police project (REVA) in is an attempt to strengthen ‘internal border’ controls. This paper discusses the emergence of practices in which activist groups organized and performed resistance through the use of counter technologies in the transport sector. We explain h…
Bodies Folded in Migrant Crypts: Dis/Ability and the Material Culture of Border-Crossing
This article considers media narratives that suggest that hiding in trucks, buses, and other vehicles to cross borders has, in fact, been a common practice in the context of migration to, and within, Europe. We aim to problematize how the tension between the materiality of bordering practices and human migrants generates a dis/abled subject. In this context, dis/ability may be a cause or consequence of migration, both in physical/material (the fo…
Laying Claim to Social Media by Activists: A Cyber-Material Détournement
This article examines current appropriations of social media by activists of the radical left in Greece and Sweden. Previous research has shown that the discourse concerning social media's empowering potential is embedded in commercial values that contradict the value systems of many activists who engage in struggles against the current economic system. We employ the notion of détournement, which describes how social movements turn something asid…
A Sociology of Treason: The Construction of Weakness
The process of translation has both an excluding and including character. The analysis of actor networks, the process of mobilizing alliances, and constructing networks is a common and worthwhile focus. However, the simultaneous betrayals, dissidences, and controversies are often only implied in network construction stories. We aim to nuance the construction aspect of actor-network theory (ANT) by shining the analytical searchlight elsewhere, whe…
Partisan Scholarship in Technoscientific Controversies: Reflections on Research Experience
Several academic traditions have addressed epistemological objectivity and/or partisanship in the study of technoscientific controversies. On the one hand, positivist and relativist scholars agree that the political commitments of the social researcher should not impinge on scientific enquiry, while on the other hand, feminist and Marxist scholars not only take stands in diverse technoscientific debates, but even claim their agendas to be more cr…
Enacting disability: How can science and technology studies inform disability studies
This paper aims to discuss how science and technology studies (STS) can inform disability studies and challenge dominant approaches, such as the medical and the social models, in the ordering and representation of disability. Disability studies and STS have followed somewhat parallel paths in the history of ideas. From a positivist approach to their research objects to a strong social constructivism, both disciplines have moved to postmodern conc…
Enacting disability: How can science and technology studies inform disability studies
This paper aims to discuss how science and technology studies (STS) can inform disability studies and challenge dominant approaches, such as the medical and the social models, in the ordering and representation of disability. Disability studies and STS have followed somewhat parallel paths in the history of ideas. From a positivist approach to their research objects to a strong social constructivism, both disciplines have moved to postmodern conc…
A Sociology of Treason: The Construction of Weakness
The process of translation has both an excluding and including character. The analysis of actor networks, the process of mobilizing alliances, and constructing networks is a common and worthwhile focus. However, the simultaneous betrayals, dissidences, and controversies are often only implied in network construction stories. We aim to nuance the construction aspect of actor-network theory (ANT) by shining the analytical searchlight elsewhere, whe…
Partisan Scholarship in Technoscientific Controversies: Reflections on Research Experience
Several academic traditions have addressed epistemological objectivity and/or partisanship in the study of technoscientific controversies. On the one hand, positivist and relativist scholars agree that the political commitments of the social researcher should not impinge on scientific enquiry, while on the other hand, feminist and Marxist scholars not only take stands in diverse technoscientific debates, but even claim their agendas to be more cr…
Laying Claim to Social Media by Activists: A Cyber-Material Détournement
This article examines current appropriations of social media by activists of the radical left in Greece and Sweden. Previous research has shown that the discourse concerning social media's empowering potential is embedded in commercial values that contradict the value systems of many activists who engage in struggles against the current economic system. We employ the notion of détournement, which describes how social movements turn something asid…
Practices of radical digital care: Towards autonomous queer migration
Digital connectivity of queer migrants on the move to Europe plays a crucial role in confronting border regimes, heteronormativity and racist oppression. ICTs at the disposal of queer migrants interrupt the material politics of silence and violence. However, digital technology also implies serious hazards. Queer migrants use digital space to empower themselves, to build networks, and to trace, reach and create safer spaces of care. This paper con…
Border control technologies: Introduction
This introduction together with the whole special issue on border technologies challenges the limitations of potentially simplistic understandings of contestation, disputes, and political intervention inherent in many accounts of material politics. How do border technologies turn borders into a contested space and how do they come to matter for specific affected communities, especially migrants? How do border technologies manifest hegemonic borde…
The discreet charm of activeness: The Vain Construction of Efficient Smart Grid Users
Activeness is a key concept in smart grid visions, but little is known of what this activeness entails. By combing the literature on marketisation/performativity with critical consumption studies, we outline our findings from a case study of a smart grid project in Sweden. Using a mixed method methodology, we critically approach various tensions, doubts and frictions that occur in the process of constructing ‘activeness.’ For decades, the design …
Bodies Folded in Migrant Crypts: Dis/Ability and the Material Culture of Border-Crossing
This article considers media narratives that suggest that hiding in trucks, buses, and other vehicles to cross borders has, in fact, been a common practice in the context of migration to, and within, Europe. We aim to problematize how the tension between the materiality of bordering practices and human migrants generates a dis/abled subject. In this context, dis/ability may be a cause or consequence of migration, both in physical/material (the fo…
Platform Labour as a Stepping Stone? Challenging the Dominant Narrative for Danish Housecleaning Platforms
This article problematises the invocation of the stepping stone hypothesis for platform labour by Danish policymakers, namely the argument that digital labour platforms facilitate transitioning to typical employment, especially for groups of vulnerable workers. Tracing the origins of the stepping stone hypothesis back to the international literature on temporary work agencies and workfare policies triggered by neoliberal policy shifts, the articl…
We are all foreigners in an analogue world: Cyber-material alliances in contesting immigration control in Stockholm’s metro system
Public spaces are often contested sites involving the political use of socio-material arrangements to check, control and filter the flow of people. In Sweden, the recently established police project (REVA) in is an attempt to strengthen ‘internal border’ controls. This paper discusses the emergence of practices in which activist groups organized and performed resistance through the use of counter technologies in the transport sector. We explain h…
Analog flows in digital worlds: Migration multiples' and digital heterotopias in Greek territory
Enacting disability: How can science and technology studies inform disability studies
This paper aims to discuss how science and technology studies (STS) can inform disability studies and challenge dominant approaches, such as the medical and the social models, in the ordering and representation of disability. Disability studies and STS have followed somewhat parallel paths in the history of ideas. From a positivist approach to their research objects to a strong social constructivism, both disciplines have moved to postmodern conc…
Partisan Scholarship in Technoscientific Controversies: Reflections on Research Experience
Several academic traditions have addressed epistemological objectivity and/or partisanship in the study of technoscientific controversies. On the one hand, positivist and relativist scholars agree that the political commitments of the social researcher should not impinge on scientific enquiry, while on the other hand, feminist and Marxist scholars not only take stands in diverse technoscientific debates, but even claim their agendas to be more cr…
A Sociology of Treason: The Construction of Weakness
The process of translation has both an excluding and including character. The analysis of actor networks, the process of mobilizing alliances, and constructing networks is a common and worthwhile focus. However, the simultaneous betrayals, dissidences, and controversies are often only implied in network construction stories. We aim to nuance the construction aspect of actor-network theory (ANT) by shining the analytical searchlight elsewhere, whe…
Bodies Folded in Migrant Crypts: Dis/Ability and the Material Culture of Border-Crossing
This article considers media narratives that suggest that hiding in trucks, buses, and other vehicles to cross borders has, in fact, been a common practice in the context of migration to, and within, Europe. We aim to problematize how the tension between the materiality of bordering practices and human migrants generates a dis/abled subject. In this context, dis/ability may be a cause or consequence of migration, both in physical/material (the fo…
Laying Claim to Social Media by Activists: A Cyber-Material Détournement
This article examines current appropriations of social media by activists of the radical left in Greece and Sweden. Previous research has shown that the discourse concerning social media's empowering potential is embedded in commercial values that contradict the value systems of many activists who engage in struggles against the current economic system. We employ the notion of détournement, which describes how social movements turn something asid…
We are all foreigners in an analogue world: Cyber-material alliances in contesting immigration control in Stockholm’s metro system
Public spaces are often contested sites involving the political use of socio-material arrangements to check, control and filter the flow of people. In Sweden, the recently established police project (REVA) in is an attempt to strengthen ‘internal border’ controls. This paper discusses the emergence of practices in which activist groups organized and performed resistance through the use of counter technologies in the transport sector. We explain h…
The discreet charm of activeness: The Vain Construction of Efficient Smart Grid Users
Activeness is a key concept in smart grid visions, but little is known of what this activeness entails. By combing the literature on marketisation/performativity with critical consumption studies, we outline our findings from a case study of a smart grid project in Sweden. Using a mixed method methodology, we critically approach various tensions, doubts and frictions that occur in the process of constructing ‘activeness.’ For decades, the design …
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring for Data
Migration Mobile: Border Dissidence, Sociotechnical Resistance, and the Construction of Irregularized Migrants
This open access book offers an account of the very different technologies implicated in border crossing and migration management. Borders have been sites of contestations and struggles over who belongs and who does not, who is and is not allowed to move freely in transnational or national spaces. Embedded as they are in the bordering process, policing and security practices produce the irregularity and illegitimacy of the migrating subject. At t…
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies: Caring For (Big) Data
Anna is one of the initiators to, and research leader of, "the Asylum Commission" (https
Analog flows in digital worlds: Migration multiples' and digital heterotopias in Greek territory
Border control technologies: Introduction
This introduction together with the whole special issue on border technologies challenges the limitations of potentially simplistic understandings of contestation, disputes, and political intervention inherent in many accounts of material politics. How do border technologies turn borders into a contested space and how do they come to matter for specific affected communities, especially migrants? How do border technologies manifest hegemonic borde…
Practices of radical digital care: Towards autonomous queer migration
Digital connectivity of queer migrants on the move to Europe plays a crucial role in confronting border regimes, heteronormativity and racist oppression. ICTs at the disposal of queer migrants interrupt the material politics of silence and violence. However, digital technology also implies serious hazards. Queer migrants use digital space to empower themselves, to build networks, and to trace, reach and create safer spaces of care. This paper con…
Citizens’ perspectives on platformisation of police work: A scenario and story-based exploration in Estonia and Sweden
The integration of automated decision-making systems has transformed police work and our understanding of security and surveillance. Despite a growing theoretical literature on shifts in policing due to widespread analytical platform adoption, the public's understanding and perception of these changes are largely unexplored. This study aims to bridge this gap by empirically examining citizens’ perspectives on the new dynamics of police work in tw…
The role of data integration and analysis platforms in contemporary society: An introduction
This introduction to the special issue on data integration and analytics platforms provides an overview of the current importance of these platforms, with particular reference to the market leader, Palantir Technologies. In addition to the platformization of many areas of society through the use of data integration and analytics platforms, we argue that, where Palantir platforms are used, the process of ‘Palantirization’ can also be observed, bec…
A world of Palantir – ontological politics in the Danish police’s POL-Intel
When Palantir Technologies customized the Gotham platform into POL-INTEL, a data integration and analysis platform purchased and used by the Danish police, it also enforced a new ontology that simultaneously shaped the police organization and policing practices. In this context, the concept of ontology should be understood in a twofold, albeit interconnected, way: it stands for its usual philosophical burden, but also refers to a centralized conc…
Platform Labour as a Stepping Stone? Challenging the Dominant Narrative for Danish Housecleaning Platforms
This article problematises the invocation of the stepping stone hypothesis for platform labour by Danish policymakers, namely the argument that digital labour platforms facilitate transitioning to typical employment, especially for groups of vulnerable workers. Tracing the origins of the stepping stone hypothesis back to the international literature on temporary work agencies and workfare policies triggered by neoliberal policy shifts, the articl…
Scientification through privatization: POL-Intel in Denmark
Based on the empirical case of the POL-INTEL platform used by the Danish police, which is a customized version of Palantir Technologies’ Gotham platform, this article traces the interrelation between scientification and policing in the digital era as articulated in and through a private actor. Ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, publicly available policy documents as well as documents detailing police practices, organization, ambitions and workfl…
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