Rate My Professor Claudia Aradau

Claudia Aradau is Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She serves as Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant SECURITY FLOWS (‘Enacting border security in the digital age: Political worlds of data forms, flows and frictions’), funded from 2019 to 2024. Her research develops a critical political analysis of security practices, examining how problems and people are constituted as objects and subjects of security and the implications for political subjectivity and democracy. Current work focuses on digital technologies reconfiguring security and surveillance, including algorithms and machine learning reshaping relations between security, democracy, and critique. The SECURITY FLOWS project investigates epistemic, political, and ethical implications of datafication in border security at the intersection of critical border and security studies, Science and Technology Studies, and data studies. A completed project, GUARDINT (‘Oversight and intelligence networks: Who guards the guardians?’), explored how digital surveillance normalizes and intangibilizes security-democracy relations. She co-authored Algorithmic Reason: The New Government of Self and Other (Oxford University Press, 2022) with Tobias Blanke, analyzing big data and algorithmic practices in making social and political problems knowable and governable. Other projects include Making digital non-citizens: identity, materiality and statelessness in Cambodia (Leverhulme Trust, 2023-2026) and Refugee Aid 3.0: Seeking Infrastructure Justice (ESRC, 2022-2023).