Elspeth Van Veeren
Biographic Data
| ID | 298535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elspeth Van Veeren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elspeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Veeren |
| SIGNATURE | VAN VEEREN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2582-9486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Taking the red pill
In this article, we analyze the gender politics of the anti-feminist “red pill” or Matrix conspiracy theory. Extending the work of Jaron Harambam and Stef Aupers on how conspiracy theorists legitimize their truth claims in part through “futuristic imaginaries,” we draw attention to the role of popular culture and intertextuality for generating the “common sense” of these beliefs. More specifically, based on a discourse analysis of a representativ…
Secrecy games, power, and resistance in global politics
In contrast to a view of secrecy as a tool of statecraft, where the game of ‘covering/uncovering’ dominates as the central way of interpreting secrecy’s power, we set out ‘secrecy games’ as an approach for understanding secrecy’s power and influence. To do so, we offer a set of three games to illustrate the more varied ways that secrecy operates and draw attention to the ways in which non-state actors use secrecy and shape its effects. In particu…
Being Curious with Secrecy
This article contributes to ongoing attempts to broaden out theorizations of secrecy from an intentional and willful act of concealment to a cultural and structural process. We do so by fostering a conversation between secrecy and curiosity. This conversation is enabled through a review of central themes in secrecy studies and curiosity studies, but also through an examination of a collaboration between the science center “We the Curious” and a n…
The War on Terror is hard to see
From October 2017 to May 2018 the Imperial War Museum London presented ‘the UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since 9/11’, Age of Terror: Art since 9/11. Drawing together 50 works of art by over 40 international artists into four themed sections (‘9/11’, ‘State Control’, ‘Weapons’, and ‘Home’) the exhibition met with mixed responses from critics, as well as mixed reviews by members of the public. Curatorial pra…
Secrecy's subjects
This article sets out a framework for studying the power of secrecy in security discourses. To date, the interplay between secrecy and security has been explored within security studies most often through a framing of secrecy and security as a ‘balancing’ act, where secrecy and revelation are binary opposites, and excesses of either produce insecurity. Increasingly, however, the co-constitutive relationship between secrecy and security is the sub…
Layered wanderings
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Materializing US Security
While a growing body of literature working at the intersection of security and visual studies recognizes the value of studying images, how these visualities are produced is less theorized, especially with respect to materialities and their capacity to compel meanings. Analyzing the tours of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which have been arranged by the US military for VIP visitors since the site opened, this article argues that the selective organi…
Guantánamo does not exist
Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantnamo, the high-profile US military detention and interrogation operation, was established in January 2002 to house the 'worst of the worst' of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.It nevertheless became a public spectacle that was essential for constituting the reality of a Global War on Terror.Through evolving media and VIP tours of the facilities coupled with the Bush administration's military analyst programme (a system of reve…
Captured by the camera's eye
In January 2002, images of the detention of prisoners held at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay as part of the Global War on Terrorism were released by the US Department of Defense, a public relations move that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld later referred to as ‘probably unfortunate’. These images, widely reproduced in the media, quickly came to symbolise the facility and the practices at work there. Nine years on, the images of orange-clad …
Interrogating 24
As an increasing number of scholars have argued, the fiction of popular culture and the reality of politics are inseparable. Fact and fiction, rather than remaining distinct, are mutually constitutive and interact to produce new meaning. A critical reading of Fox Television’s intensely popular series 24 suggests that the series (re)produces key elements of the global war on terrorism discourse and is therefore a particularly useful case for under…
Interrogating 24
As an increasing number of scholars have argued, the fiction of popular culture and the reality of politics are inseparable. Fact and fiction, rather than remaining distinct, are mutually constitutive and interact to produce new meaning. A critical reading of Fox Television’s intensely popular series 24 suggests that the series (re)produces key elements of the global war on terrorism discourse and is therefore a particularly useful case for under…
Captured by the camera's eye
In January 2002, images of the detention of prisoners held at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay as part of the Global War on Terrorism were released by the US Department of Defense, a public relations move that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld later referred to as ‘probably unfortunate’. These images, widely reproduced in the media, quickly came to symbolise the facility and the practices at work there. Nine years on, the images of orange-clad …
The War on Terror is hard to see
From October 2017 to May 2018 the Imperial War Museum London presented ‘the UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since 9/11’, Age of Terror: Art since 9/11. Drawing together 50 works of art by over 40 international artists into four themed sections (‘9/11’, ‘State Control’, ‘Weapons’, and ‘Home’) the exhibition met with mixed responses from critics, as well as mixed reviews by members of the public. Curatorial pra…
Guantánamo does not exist
Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantnamo, the high-profile US military detention and interrogation operation, was established in January 2002 to house the 'worst of the worst' of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.It nevertheless became a public spectacle that was essential for constituting the reality of a Global War on Terror.Through evolving media and VIP tours of the facilities coupled with the Bush administration's military analyst programme (a system of reve…
Secrecy's subjects
This article sets out a framework for studying the power of secrecy in security discourses. To date, the interplay between secrecy and security has been explored within security studies most often through a framing of secrecy and security as a ‘balancing’ act, where secrecy and revelation are binary opposites, and excesses of either produce insecurity. Increasingly, however, the co-constitutive relationship between secrecy and security is the sub…
Materializing US Security
While a growing body of literature working at the intersection of security and visual studies recognizes the value of studying images, how these visualities are produced is less theorized, especially with respect to materialities and their capacity to compel meanings. Analyzing the tours of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which have been arranged by the US military for VIP visitors since the site opened, this article argues that the selective organi…
Layered wanderings
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Interrogating 24
As an increasing number of scholars have argued, the fiction of popular culture and the reality of politics are inseparable. Fact and fiction, rather than remaining distinct, are mutually constitutive and interact to produce new meaning. A critical reading of Fox Television’s intensely popular series 24 suggests that the series (re)produces key elements of the global war on terrorism discourse and is therefore a particularly useful case for under…
Guantánamo does not exist
Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantnamo, the high-profile US military detention and interrogation operation, was established in January 2002 to house the 'worst of the worst' of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.It nevertheless became a public spectacle that was essential for constituting the reality of a Global War on Terror.Through evolving media and VIP tours of the facilities coupled with the Bush administration's military analyst programme (a system of reve…
Captured by the camera's eye
In January 2002, images of the detention of prisoners held at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay as part of the Global War on Terrorism were released by the US Department of Defense, a public relations move that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld later referred to as ‘probably unfortunate’. These images, widely reproduced in the media, quickly came to symbolise the facility and the practices at work there. Nine years on, the images of orange-clad …
Materializing US Security
While a growing body of literature working at the intersection of security and visual studies recognizes the value of studying images, how these visualities are produced is less theorized, especially with respect to materialities and their capacity to compel meanings. Analyzing the tours of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which have been arranged by the US military for VIP visitors since the site opened, this article argues that the selective organi…
Secrecy's subjects
This article sets out a framework for studying the power of secrecy in security discourses. To date, the interplay between secrecy and security has been explored within security studies most often through a framing of secrecy and security as a ‘balancing’ act, where secrecy and revelation are binary opposites, and excesses of either produce insecurity. Increasingly, however, the co-constitutive relationship between secrecy and security is the sub…
Layered wanderings
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The War on Terror is hard to see
From October 2017 to May 2018 the Imperial War Museum London presented ‘the UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since 9/11’, Age of Terror: Art since 9/11. Drawing together 50 works of art by over 40 international artists into four themed sections (‘9/11’, ‘State Control’, ‘Weapons’, and ‘Home’) the exhibition met with mixed responses from critics, as well as mixed reviews by members of the public. Curatorial pra…
Being Curious with Secrecy
This article contributes to ongoing attempts to broaden out theorizations of secrecy from an intentional and willful act of concealment to a cultural and structural process. We do so by fostering a conversation between secrecy and curiosity. This conversation is enabled through a review of central themes in secrecy studies and curiosity studies, but also through an examination of a collaboration between the science center “We the Curious” and a n…
Secrecy games, power, and resistance in global politics
In contrast to a view of secrecy as a tool of statecraft, where the game of ‘covering/uncovering’ dominates as the central way of interpreting secrecy’s power, we set out ‘secrecy games’ as an approach for understanding secrecy’s power and influence. To do so, we offer a set of three games to illustrate the more varied ways that secrecy operates and draw attention to the ways in which non-state actors use secrecy and shape its effects. In particu…
Taking the red pill
In this article, we analyze the gender politics of the anti-feminist “red pill” or Matrix conspiracy theory. Extending the work of Jaron Harambam and Stef Aupers on how conspiracy theorists legitimize their truth claims in part through “futuristic imaginaries,” we draw attention to the role of popular culture and intertextuality for generating the “common sense” of these beliefs. More specifically, based on a discourse analysis of a representativ…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer security (5 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (4 works) · Art (3 works)