Project Kraken
Surveillance and Liminality 'On the Edge' of Land and Water
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4854264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Weaver (0000-0003-3041-5373, Crime, Terrorism and Global Security, Easton College, Norwich, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 333-359 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2020.1755267 |
| OpenAlex | W3022097186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Project Kraken, an effort to combat terrorism and crime on the UK water network, is a valuable case that propels knowledge of surveillance. Whilst similar initiatives universalize surveillance participation, Kraken particularises it, occupying specific spaces and recruiting a delimited (maritime) community. Research observed, on one hand, Kraken’s spatial liminality, given its occupation of the land/water threshold, characterized by ‘edges’ through which humans, thought, and resources flow. On the other, agential liminality was observed given Kraken’s enlistment of the maritime community: ever ‘on the edge’ of land/water, peripheral to national security, yet endowed with knowledge useable by state. A marginal actor recruited ‘inwards,’ that community possesses a watery consciousness harnessed for raison d’état. Liminality offers a lens through which to assess such particularisation. A liminal approach, foregrounding the edge, helps overcome the binaries of inside/outside, land/water, offering fertile territory on which to revision power flows and more accurately situate the powerful and powerless in contemporary social science
Computer security · Liminality · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Geographical imaginations
Places on the Margin
Interactive (In)security
Of other seas
A First Line of Defence? Vigilant surveillance, participatory policing and the reporting of ‘suspicious’ activity
If You See Something, Say Something
Responding to international terrorism
The invisibility of race
Borderwork beyond Inside/Outside? Frontex, the Citizen–Detective and the War on Terror
Constructing resilience through security and surveillance
Vigilant Visualities
Liminal geopolitics
Space and Relativity in Newton and Leibniz
Security is Coming Home
Project Argus and the Resilient Citizen
Producing and Governing Community (through) Resilience
Stakeholder security
The territorial trap
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Consulting as a Liminal Space
Crafted within liminal spaces
Deep Routeing and the Making of 'Maritime Motorways
Lines of sight
Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces
Manipulating Material Hydro-Worlds
Beyond seablindness
The Ritual Process
Writing with the sea
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |