Rocco Bellanova
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 270752 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rocco Bellanova |
| PRENOMES | Rocco |
| SOBRENOME | Bellanova |
| ASSINATURA | BELLANOVA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6222-6636 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 201 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The technopolitics of database interoperability
We need to talk about the technopolitics of database interoperability. To date, databases remain crucial to datafied forms of public security, migration and border control. How databases are to speak to each other has cascading effects on the relation between power and knowledge, and upon how digital data, rights and subjectivities meet. This is especially the case in domains at the core of statecraft, where database interoperability affects both…
The Shifting Sands of Digital Transformation
International Political Sociology (IPS) needs to engage digital transformation, loosely defined as how digital technologies become part of and re-shape social and political practices, structures, and relationships. We argue that digital transformation is seldom fixed or complete. Rather, it is subject to ongoing mutations and adjustments, based on technological advancements and idiosyncrasies as much as on political programs, struggles, and evolv…
Thank You to Reviewers
Digital/sovereignty and European security integration
The notion of digital sovereignty, also often referred to as technological sovereignty, has been gaining momentum in the European Union’s (EU) political and policy discourses over recent years. Digital sovereignty has come to supplement an already substantial engagement of the EU with the digital across various security policy domains. The goal of this article and of the overall Special Issue is to explore how the discourse and practices of digit…
Co‐Producing Security
The European Union (EU) seeks to play a leading role in steering the private work of online content moderation, as demonstrated by numerous policy and legislative initiatives in the domain. Two initiatives, in particular, are shaping terrorist content moderation: the creation of a EU Internet Referral Unit and the adoption of a Regulation on preventing the online dissemination of terrorist content (TERREG). This article analyses these initiatives…
The algorithmic regulation of security
This article contributes to debates on algorithmic regulation by focusing on the domain of security. It develops aninfrastructuralperspective, by analyzing how algorithmic regulation is enacted through the custom‐built transatlantic data infrastructures of the EU‐U.S. Passenger Name Records and Terrorism Financing Tracking Program programs. Concerning regulationthroughalgorithms, this approach analyzes how specific, commercial data are rendered t…
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II)
This article focuses on the Schengen Information System (SIS II) – the largest data infrastructure supporting police cooperation and border controls in the European Union. Through the SIS II, national authorities exchange information about individuals and objects, and this across national and institutional boundaries. Yet, the SIS II does not always perform as anticipated in its design scripts. Following common threads about infrastructural polit…
Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Government Surveillance
In Europe today, digital platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, provide essential means for millions of people to express themselves, engage in public debate, and organise politically (Poell & van Dijck, 2018). Crucially, governments are leveraging the power of platforms to impose new forms of restrictions on free expression, and engage in surveillance of individuals and online activism. This has profound implications for the rights to…
Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence
Questions about how algorithms contribute to (in)security are under discussion across international political sociology. Building upon and adding to these debates, our collective discussion foregrounds questions about algorithmic violence. We argue that it is important to examine how algorithmic systems feed (into) specific forms of violence, and how they justify violent actions or redefine what forms of violence are deemed legitimate. Bringing t…
Taking the trouble
A multitude of new research themes and objects, especially technological innovations and knowledge practices, have come to populate international relations and security politics. Many critical security scholars are engaging theoretical resources from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to make sense of things as diverse as fake news, climate change, financial surveillance, digital images and autonomous targeting systems. This Specia…
Doing and mediating critique
What does it mean to study security from a critical perspective? This question continues to haunt critical security studies. Conversations about normative stances, political engagement, and the role of critique are mainstays of the discipline. This article argues that these conversations tend to revolve around a too disembodied image of research, where the everyday practice of researchers is sidelined. But researchers do do research: they work ma…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Composting and computing
Making sense of digital security practice requires grasping how data are put to use to compose the governing of individuals. Data need to be understood in their becoming, and in their becoming something across diverse practices. To do this, we suggest embracing two conceptual tropes that jointly articulate the being together of, and in, data compositions: composting and computing . With composting, we approach data as lively entities, and we expl…
Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious reactions to these activities shows that the political will to implement them appears to be an unbroken trend. The resulting move into a surveillance society is, however, contested for many reasons. Are the resulting infringements of privacy and other human rights compatible with democratic soci…
Digital, politics, and algorithms
Many actors mobilize the cognitive, legal and technical tool-box of data protection when they discuss and address controversial issues such as digital mass surveillance. Yet, critical approaches to the digital only barely explore the politics of data protection in relation to data-driven governance. Building on governmentality studies and Actor-Network-Theory, this article analyses the potential and limits of using data protection to critique the…
Nurturing Ob-Scene Politics
Moving away from the traditional framing of surveillance in terms of in/visibility, this article proposes a conceptual journey that investigates the potential of the notions of dis-appearance and ob-scene as alternative theoretical tools. In particular, it explores how these different perspectives can help bringing politics back into the study and the critique of surveillance.Visibility is structurally linked to invisibility, and together they co…
Data Protection, with Love
How to engage with the politics of privacy in the age of preemptive security? My suggestion is to start with data protection. Which, following De Hert and Gutwirth (2006), is not exactly the same of privacy. Extrapolating from their analysis of the two as different â legal toolsâ , I would say that privacy and data protection are two slightly different rationales of power relations: the one of privacy based on the â opacity of the individualâ , a…
Le citoyen face aux nouvelles pratiques sécuritaires de l’Union européenne
Politics of Disappearance
In 2008, debates over the deployment of body scanners in EU airports gave rise to imbroglios of technologies, bodies, law, and policies. Eventually, these entanglements appeared to be undone and resolved by the concealment of bodies from the screens of the machines—which had, meanwhile, been renamed security scanners. Using the concept of setting, this article describes the processes of disappearance operating among a vivid multiplicity of actant…
Le citoyen face aux nouvelles pratiques sécuritaires de l’Union européenne
L’article examine l’implication croissante de l’Union européenne dans le contrôle de l’espace européen et dans la sécurisation des frontières extérieures de l’Union. Il s’agit d’abord d’analyser les mutations des modalités de l’action publique à l’œuvre dans le champ de la sécurité en soulignant le passage d’une logique de « police », qui repose sur la monopolisation des moyens de la coercition physique légitime, à une logique de « policing », qu…
Waiting for the barbarians or shaping new societies
This article presents a critical review of Helen Nissenbaum's 'Privacy In Context'. Nissenbaum's book is set to become a seminal work both for privacy scholars around the world and for many other researchers who increasingly deal with privacy-related topics. Indeed, this is a much-awaited book, advancing the theory of privacy as ‘Contextual Integrity’ presented in an often-quoted article back in 2004. Moreover, the idea of Contextual Integrity pr…
Variations sur le thème de la banalisation de la surveillance
Les études de la surveillance ( Surveillance studies ) sont-elles en mesure d’appréhender dans leur globalité des formes atypiques de surveillance où le présupposé d’un contrôle disciplinaire ne peut être démontré ? Comment saisir ces formes de surveillance qui se développent dans le quotidien de nos activités ? Rocco Bellanova, Paul de Hert et Serge Gutwirth se livrent à cet exercice réflexif sur leur discipline de recherche. Pour dépasser les p…
Le cas S. et Marper et les données personnelles
Le 8 décembre 2008, la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme (CEDH) a prononcé un arrêt décisif concernant la requête d’effacement des données personnelles (empreintes digitales, échantillons et profils ADN) des deux citoyens britanniques S. et Marper, conservées dans les banques des données de la police. La conservation illimitée des données de personnes non condamnées est reconnue comme une violation du droit à la protection de la vie privée. O…
Protection des données personnelles et mesures de sécurité
Les enjeux de l’échange et de la protection des données personnelles ne sont pas une nouveauté dans les débats sur la gestion de la sécurité transatlantique et l’impact de certaines mesures sur les libertés fondamentales. La publication, en juin 2008, du Rapport final du groupe de contact à haut niveau, composé d’experts de l’Union Européenne et des Etats-Unis, ainsi que sa réception par les dirigeants politiques, a contribué à relancer le débat.…
The algorithmic regulation of security
This article contributes to debates on algorithmic regulation by focusing on the domain of security. It develops aninfrastructuralperspective, by analyzing how algorithmic regulation is enacted through the custom‐built transatlantic data infrastructures of the EU‐U.S. Passenger Name Records and Terrorism Financing Tracking Program programs. Concerning regulationthroughalgorithms, this approach analyzes how specific, commercial data are rendered t…
Doing and mediating critique
What does it mean to study security from a critical perspective? This question continues to haunt critical security studies. Conversations about normative stances, political engagement, and the role of critique are mainstays of the discipline. This article argues that these conversations tend to revolve around a too disembodied image of research, where the everyday practice of researchers is sidelined. But researchers do do research: they work ma…
Digital, politics, and algorithms
Many actors mobilize the cognitive, legal and technical tool-box of data protection when they discuss and address controversial issues such as digital mass surveillance. Yet, critical approaches to the digital only barely explore the politics of data protection in relation to data-driven governance. Building on governmentality studies and Actor-Network-Theory, this article analyses the potential and limits of using data protection to critique the…
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II)
This article focuses on the Schengen Information System (SIS II) – the largest data infrastructure supporting police cooperation and border controls in the European Union. Through the SIS II, national authorities exchange information about individuals and objects, and this across national and institutional boundaries. Yet, the SIS II does not always perform as anticipated in its design scripts. Following common threads about infrastructural polit…
Politics of Disappearance
In 2008, debates over the deployment of body scanners in EU airports gave rise to imbroglios of technologies, bodies, law, and policies. Eventually, these entanglements appeared to be undone and resolved by the concealment of bodies from the screens of the machines—which had, meanwhile, been renamed security scanners. Using the concept of setting, this article describes the processes of disappearance operating among a vivid multiplicity of actant…
Taking the trouble
A multitude of new research themes and objects, especially technological innovations and knowledge practices, have come to populate international relations and security politics. Many critical security scholars are engaging theoretical resources from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to make sense of things as diverse as fake news, climate change, financial surveillance, digital images and autonomous targeting systems. This Specia…
Co‐Producing Security
The European Union (EU) seeks to play a leading role in steering the private work of online content moderation, as demonstrated by numerous policy and legislative initiatives in the domain. Two initiatives, in particular, are shaping terrorist content moderation: the creation of a EU Internet Referral Unit and the adoption of a Regulation on preventing the online dissemination of terrorist content (TERREG). This article analyses these initiatives…
Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence
Questions about how algorithms contribute to (in)security are under discussion across international political sociology. Building upon and adding to these debates, our collective discussion foregrounds questions about algorithmic violence. We argue that it is important to examine how algorithmic systems feed (into) specific forms of violence, and how they justify violent actions or redefine what forms of violence are deemed legitimate. Bringing t…
Composting and computing
Making sense of digital security practice requires grasping how data are put to use to compose the governing of individuals. Data need to be understood in their becoming, and in their becoming something across diverse practices. To do this, we suggest embracing two conceptual tropes that jointly articulate the being together of, and in, data compositions: composting and computing . With composting, we approach data as lively entities, and we expl…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Variations sur le thème de la banalisation de la surveillance
Les études de la surveillance ( Surveillance studies ) sont-elles en mesure d’appréhender dans leur globalité des formes atypiques de surveillance où le présupposé d’un contrôle disciplinaire ne peut être démontré ? Comment saisir ces formes de surveillance qui se développent dans le quotidien de nos activités ? Rocco Bellanova, Paul de Hert et Serge Gutwirth se livrent à cet exercice réflexif sur leur discipline de recherche. Pour dépasser les p…
Data Protection, with Love
How to engage with the politics of privacy in the age of preemptive security? My suggestion is to start with data protection. Which, following De Hert and Gutwirth (2006), is not exactly the same of privacy. Extrapolating from their analysis of the two as different â legal toolsâ , I would say that privacy and data protection are two slightly different rationales of power relations: the one of privacy based on the â opacity of the individualâ , a…
Nurturing Ob-Scene Politics
Moving away from the traditional framing of surveillance in terms of in/visibility, this article proposes a conceptual journey that investigates the potential of the notions of dis-appearance and ob-scene as alternative theoretical tools. In particular, it explores how these different perspectives can help bringing politics back into the study and the critique of surveillance.Visibility is structurally linked to invisibility, and together they co…
Waiting for the barbarians or shaping new societies
This article presents a critical review of Helen Nissenbaum's 'Privacy In Context'. Nissenbaum's book is set to become a seminal work both for privacy scholars around the world and for many other researchers who increasingly deal with privacy-related topics. Indeed, this is a much-awaited book, advancing the theory of privacy as ‘Contextual Integrity’ presented in an often-quoted article back in 2004. Moreover, the idea of Contextual Integrity pr…
Le cas S. et Marper et les données personnelles
Le 8 décembre 2008, la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme (CEDH) a prononcé un arrêt décisif concernant la requête d’effacement des données personnelles (empreintes digitales, échantillons et profils ADN) des deux citoyens britanniques S. et Marper, conservées dans les banques des données de la police. La conservation illimitée des données de personnes non condamnées est reconnue comme une violation du droit à la protection de la vie privée. O…
Le cas S. et Marper et les données personnelles
Le 8 décembre 2008, la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme (CEDH) a prononcé un arrêt décisif concernant la requête d’effacement des données personnelles (empreintes digitales, échantillons et profils ADN) des deux citoyens britanniques S. et Marper, conservées dans les banques des données de la police. La conservation illimitée des données de personnes non condamnées est reconnue comme une violation du droit à la protection de la vie privée. O…
Protection des données personnelles et mesures de sécurité
Les enjeux de l’échange et de la protection des données personnelles ne sont pas une nouveauté dans les débats sur la gestion de la sécurité transatlantique et l’impact de certaines mesures sur les libertés fondamentales. La publication, en juin 2008, du Rapport final du groupe de contact à haut niveau, composé d’experts de l’Union Européenne et des Etats-Unis, ainsi que sa réception par les dirigeants politiques, a contribué à relancer le débat.…
Variations sur le thème de la banalisation de la surveillance
Les études de la surveillance ( Surveillance studies ) sont-elles en mesure d’appréhender dans leur globalité des formes atypiques de surveillance où le présupposé d’un contrôle disciplinaire ne peut être démontré ? Comment saisir ces formes de surveillance qui se développent dans le quotidien de nos activités ? Rocco Bellanova, Paul de Hert et Serge Gutwirth se livrent à cet exercice réflexif sur leur discipline de recherche. Pour dépasser les p…
Waiting for the barbarians or shaping new societies
This article presents a critical review of Helen Nissenbaum's 'Privacy In Context'. Nissenbaum's book is set to become a seminal work both for privacy scholars around the world and for many other researchers who increasingly deal with privacy-related topics. Indeed, this is a much-awaited book, advancing the theory of privacy as ‘Contextual Integrity’ presented in an often-quoted article back in 2004. Moreover, the idea of Contextual Integrity pr…
Le citoyen face aux nouvelles pratiques sécuritaires de l’Union européenne
L’article examine l’implication croissante de l’Union européenne dans le contrôle de l’espace européen et dans la sécurisation des frontières extérieures de l’Union. Il s’agit d’abord d’analyser les mutations des modalités de l’action publique à l’œuvre dans le champ de la sécurité en soulignant le passage d’une logique de « police », qui repose sur la monopolisation des moyens de la coercition physique légitime, à une logique de « policing », qu…
Le citoyen face aux nouvelles pratiques sécuritaires de l’Union européenne
Politics of Disappearance
In 2008, debates over the deployment of body scanners in EU airports gave rise to imbroglios of technologies, bodies, law, and policies. Eventually, these entanglements appeared to be undone and resolved by the concealment of bodies from the screens of the machines—which had, meanwhile, been renamed security scanners. Using the concept of setting, this article describes the processes of disappearance operating among a vivid multiplicity of actant…
Data Protection, with Love
How to engage with the politics of privacy in the age of preemptive security? My suggestion is to start with data protection. Which, following De Hert and Gutwirth (2006), is not exactly the same of privacy. Extrapolating from their analysis of the two as different â legal toolsâ , I would say that privacy and data protection are two slightly different rationales of power relations: the one of privacy based on the â opacity of the individualâ , a…
Nurturing Ob-Scene Politics
Moving away from the traditional framing of surveillance in terms of in/visibility, this article proposes a conceptual journey that investigates the potential of the notions of dis-appearance and ob-scene as alternative theoretical tools. In particular, it explores how these different perspectives can help bringing politics back into the study and the critique of surveillance.Visibility is structurally linked to invisibility, and together they co…
Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious reactions to these activities shows that the political will to implement them appears to be an unbroken trend. The resulting move into a surveillance society is, however, contested for many reasons. Are the resulting infringements of privacy and other human rights compatible with democratic soci…
Digital, politics, and algorithms
Many actors mobilize the cognitive, legal and technical tool-box of data protection when they discuss and address controversial issues such as digital mass surveillance. Yet, critical approaches to the digital only barely explore the politics of data protection in relation to data-driven governance. Building on governmentality studies and Actor-Network-Theory, this article analyses the potential and limits of using data protection to critique the…
Doing and mediating critique
What does it mean to study security from a critical perspective? This question continues to haunt critical security studies. Conversations about normative stances, political engagement, and the role of critique are mainstays of the discipline. This article argues that these conversations tend to revolve around a too disembodied image of research, where the everyday practice of researchers is sidelined. But researchers do do research: they work ma…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Composting and computing
Making sense of digital security practice requires grasping how data are put to use to compose the governing of individuals. Data need to be understood in their becoming, and in their becoming something across diverse practices. To do this, we suggest embracing two conceptual tropes that jointly articulate the being together of, and in, data compositions: composting and computing . With composting, we approach data as lively entities, and we expl…
Taking the trouble
A multitude of new research themes and objects, especially technological innovations and knowledge practices, have come to populate international relations and security politics. Many critical security scholars are engaging theoretical resources from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to make sense of things as diverse as fake news, climate change, financial surveillance, digital images and autonomous targeting systems. This Specia…
Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Government Surveillance
In Europe today, digital platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, provide essential means for millions of people to express themselves, engage in public debate, and organise politically (Poell & van Dijck, 2018). Crucially, governments are leveraging the power of platforms to impose new forms of restrictions on free expression, and engage in surveillance of individuals and online activism. This has profound implications for the rights to…
Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence
Questions about how algorithms contribute to (in)security are under discussion across international political sociology. Building upon and adding to these debates, our collective discussion foregrounds questions about algorithmic violence. We argue that it is important to examine how algorithmic systems feed (into) specific forms of violence, and how they justify violent actions or redefine what forms of violence are deemed legitimate. Bringing t…
Digital/sovereignty and European security integration
The notion of digital sovereignty, also often referred to as technological sovereignty, has been gaining momentum in the European Union’s (EU) political and policy discourses over recent years. Digital sovereignty has come to supplement an already substantial engagement of the EU with the digital across various security policy domains. The goal of this article and of the overall Special Issue is to explore how the discourse and practices of digit…
Co‐Producing Security
The European Union (EU) seeks to play a leading role in steering the private work of online content moderation, as demonstrated by numerous policy and legislative initiatives in the domain. Two initiatives, in particular, are shaping terrorist content moderation: the creation of a EU Internet Referral Unit and the adoption of a Regulation on preventing the online dissemination of terrorist content (TERREG). This article analyses these initiatives…
The algorithmic regulation of security
This article contributes to debates on algorithmic regulation by focusing on the domain of security. It develops aninfrastructuralperspective, by analyzing how algorithmic regulation is enacted through the custom‐built transatlantic data infrastructures of the EU‐U.S. Passenger Name Records and Terrorism Financing Tracking Program programs. Concerning regulationthroughalgorithms, this approach analyzes how specific, commercial data are rendered t…
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II)
This article focuses on the Schengen Information System (SIS II) – the largest data infrastructure supporting police cooperation and border controls in the European Union. Through the SIS II, national authorities exchange information about individuals and objects, and this across national and institutional boundaries. Yet, the SIS II does not always perform as anticipated in its design scripts. Following common threads about infrastructural polit…
Thank You to Reviewers
The technopolitics of database interoperability
We need to talk about the technopolitics of database interoperability. To date, databases remain crucial to datafied forms of public security, migration and border control. How databases are to speak to each other has cascading effects on the relation between power and knowledge, and upon how digital data, rights and subjectivities meet. This is especially the case in domains at the core of statecraft, where database interoperability affects both…
The Shifting Sands of Digital Transformation
International Political Sociology (IPS) needs to engage digital transformation, loosely defined as how digital technologies become part of and re-shape social and political practices, structures, and relationships. We argue that digital transformation is seldom fixed or complete. Rather, it is subject to ongoing mutations and adjustments, based on technological advancements and idiosyncrasies as much as on political programs, struggles, and evolv…
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