Claudia Aradau and Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden) | 19.11.2014
Claudia Aradau is Reader in International Politics in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research has developed a critical political analysis of security practices. Among her publications are Rethinking trafficking in women: Politics out of security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Politics of catastrophe: Genealogies of the unknown, co-authored with Rens van Munster (Routledge, 2011). More recently, Aradau has co-edited the book Critical Security Methods: New Frameworks for Analysis (with Jef Huysmans, Andrew Neal and Nadine Voelkner, Routledge, 2014) and a special issue of Security Dialogue on the subject »Questioning Security Devices: Performativity, Resistance, Politics« (with Anthony Amicelle and Julien Jeandesboz, Sage, 2015). Her current work pursues a critical exploration of security and non-knowledge, with a particular focus on anticipation, devices and (big) data. Aradau is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and associate editor of the journal Security Dialogue.