What can a critical cybersecurity do?

Dwyer, Andrew C., Stevens, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5685-7930, Pijnenburg Muller, Lilly, Dunn Cavelty, Myriam, Coles-Kemp, Lizzie and Thornton, Pip 2022. What can a critical cybersecurity do? International Political Sociology 16 (3) , olac013. 10.1093/ips/olac013

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Abstract

Cybersecurity has attracted significant political, social, and technological attention as contemporary societies have become increasingly reliant on computation. Today, at least within the Global North, there is an ever-pressing and omnipresent threat of the next “cyber-attack” or the emergence of a new vulnerability in highly interconnected supply chains. However, such discursive positioning of threat and its resolution has typically reinforced, and perpetuated, dominant power structures and forms of violence as well as universalist protocols of protection. In this collective discussion, in contrast, six scholars from different disciplines discuss what it means to “do” “critical” research into what many of us uncomfortably refer to as “cybersecurity.” In a series of provocations and reflections, we argue that, as much as cybersecurity may be a dominant discursive mode with associated funding and institutional “benefits,” it is crucial to look outward, in conversation with other moves to consider our technological moment. That is, we question who and what cybersecurity is for, how to engage as academics, and what it could mean to undo cybersecurity in ways that can reassess and challenge power structures in the twenty-first century.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1749-5679
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 February 2024
Date of Acceptance:	24 May 2022
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2024 09:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/165170

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