Emma Mc Cluskey
Biographic Data
| ID | 270757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Mc Cluskey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Mc Cluskey |
| SIGNATURE | MC CLUSKEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7625-9287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An archive of contestation: Digital surveillance and human–machine recompositions of resistance
This article proposes to make sense of the ‘atmosphere of failure’ diagnosed by key players in the mobilisation against mass surveillance in the United Kingdom. Firstly, by entangling oral history interviews and computational analyses of NGO websites, we recompose an archive of contestation that is not temporally limited to the Snowden ‘moment’. We advance the notion of a ‘discordant machine’ to render the generativity of discordances and surpris…
Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles
Despite its common usage, the meaning of ‘democratic’ in democratic intelligence oversight has rarely been spelled out. In this article, we situate questions regarding intelligence oversight within broader debates about the meanings and practices of democracy. We argue that the literature on intelligence oversight has tended to implicitly or explicitly follow liberal and technocratic ideas of democracy, which have limited the understanding of ove…
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter
This article pushes the work of Bourdieu to more ethnographic directions within international social sciences, particularly studies of everyday (in)security. Thematically, it looks at how transformations in global politics towards increased xenophobia and the normalisation of ‘far-right’ politics can be examined through mobilising ‘Bourdieu the ethnographer’ (Blommaert, 2005). Using the example of Sweden, and an ethnography of everyday life aroun…
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes
Despite extensive criticisms of mass surveillance and mobilization by civil liberties and digital rights activists, surveillance has paradoxically been extended and legalized in the name of security. How do some democratic claims against surveillance appear to be normal and common-sense, whereas others are deemed unacceptable, even outlandish? Instead of starting from particular 'logics' of either security or democracy, this paper proposes to dev…
Security, Ethnography and Discourse: Transdisciplinary Encounters
Freedom, technology and surveillance: Everyday paradoxes on the EU-Morocco border
The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style
Through a critical engagement with substantive and stylistic guidelines dictated by dominant journals in the social sciences, this article enquires on what it means to write like a social scientist in the twenty-first century. Academic production and diffusion now regularly take place beyond and across national borders, with English often standing in as the lingua franca of these global exchanges. Though just one effect of this restructuration, a…
From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies
In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linking refugees with terrorism and threats to national security. Once deemed taboo, uncharitable conduct towards those in need has become increasingly acceptable, and even desirable, throughout the Western world. From Righteousness to Far Right follows nineteen m…
On the Impossibility of Untangling Pluralism and Publicism
The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style
Through a critical engagement with substantive and stylistic guidelines dictated by dominant journals in the social sciences, this article enquires on what it means to write like a social scientist in the twenty-first century. Academic production and diffusion now regularly take place beyond and across national borders, with English often standing in as the lingua franca of these global exchanges. Though just one effect of this restructuration, a…
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes
Despite extensive criticisms of mass surveillance and mobilization by civil liberties and digital rights activists, surveillance has paradoxically been extended and legalized in the name of security. How do some democratic claims against surveillance appear to be normal and common-sense, whereas others are deemed unacceptable, even outlandish? Instead of starting from particular 'logics' of either security or democracy, this paper proposes to dev…
Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles
Despite its common usage, the meaning of ‘democratic’ in democratic intelligence oversight has rarely been spelled out. In this article, we situate questions regarding intelligence oversight within broader debates about the meanings and practices of democracy. We argue that the literature on intelligence oversight has tended to implicitly or explicitly follow liberal and technocratic ideas of democracy, which have limited the understanding of ove…
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter
This article pushes the work of Bourdieu to more ethnographic directions within international social sciences, particularly studies of everyday (in)security. Thematically, it looks at how transformations in global politics towards increased xenophobia and the normalisation of ‘far-right’ politics can be examined through mobilising ‘Bourdieu the ethnographer’ (Blommaert, 2005). Using the example of Sweden, and an ethnography of everyday life aroun…
From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies
In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linking refugees with terrorism and threats to national security. Once deemed taboo, uncharitable conduct towards those in need has become increasingly acceptable, and even desirable, throughout the Western world. From Righteousness to Far Right follows nineteen m…
On the Impossibility of Untangling Pluralism and Publicism
Freedom, technology and surveillance: Everyday paradoxes on the EU-Morocco border
The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style
Through a critical engagement with substantive and stylistic guidelines dictated by dominant journals in the social sciences, this article enquires on what it means to write like a social scientist in the twenty-first century. Academic production and diffusion now regularly take place beyond and across national borders, with English often standing in as the lingua franca of these global exchanges. Though just one effect of this restructuration, a…
Security, Ethnography and Discourse: Transdisciplinary Encounters
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes
Despite extensive criticisms of mass surveillance and mobilization by civil liberties and digital rights activists, surveillance has paradoxically been extended and legalized in the name of security. How do some democratic claims against surveillance appear to be normal and common-sense, whereas others are deemed unacceptable, even outlandish? Instead of starting from particular 'logics' of either security or democracy, this paper proposes to dev…
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter
This article pushes the work of Bourdieu to more ethnographic directions within international social sciences, particularly studies of everyday (in)security. Thematically, it looks at how transformations in global politics towards increased xenophobia and the normalisation of ‘far-right’ politics can be examined through mobilising ‘Bourdieu the ethnographer’ (Blommaert, 2005). Using the example of Sweden, and an ethnography of everyday life aroun…
Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles
Despite its common usage, the meaning of ‘democratic’ in democratic intelligence oversight has rarely been spelled out. In this article, we situate questions regarding intelligence oversight within broader debates about the meanings and practices of democracy. We argue that the literature on intelligence oversight has tended to implicitly or explicitly follow liberal and technocratic ideas of democracy, which have limited the understanding of ove…
An archive of contestation: Digital surveillance and human–machine recompositions of resistance
This article proposes to make sense of the ‘atmosphere of failure’ diagnosed by key players in the mobilisation against mass surveillance in the United Kingdom. Firstly, by entangling oral history interviews and computational analyses of NGO websites, we recompose an archive of contestation that is not temporally limited to the Snowden ‘moment’. We advance the notion of a ‘discordant machine’ to render the generativity of discordances and surpris…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)