Security‐as‐Service in the Management of European Border Data Infrastructures
基于对eu-LISA总部的实地调查，本文探讨了该机构如何通过服务逻辑分享专业知识，从而在管理欧洲边境数据基础设施时建立合法性和权威，并揭示这种管理同时具有去政治化和政治化的双重特征。
Abstract Today, large‐scale IT systems play a central role in the management of European borders. These systems not only support and enable the management of mobility but also require expert management as complex data infrastructures. Drawing on fieldwork carried out at the headquarters of the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large‐Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu‐LISA), this article engages with growing calls to explore the politics of data infrastructure management. Focusing on the expert discourses and practices of eu‐LISA, I show that, in line with a logic of service, it seeks to establish its legitimacy and authority as the manager of data infrastructures by sharing its expertise with its stakeholders. By attending to a logic of service, I show that the management of data infrastructures is neither exclusively depoliticising nor politicising; rather, it is often simultaneously both.