Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon
| Main author: | Ben Jaffel, Hager |
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| Other authors: | Hoffmann, AlvinaKearns, OliverLarsson, Sebastian |
| Format: | Journal Article |
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eprints-42557 |
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eprints |
| institution |
SOAS, University of London |
| collection |
SOAS Research Online |
| language |
English |
| language_search |
English |
| topic |
JZ International relations |
| description |
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence. This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers. Instead, our interventions seek to problematize and break with this notion of the cycle and show what an alternative study of intelligence would look like. In the first part of the discussion, we situate our intervention in the broader fields of IS and International Political Sociology. Espousing a transdisciplinary approach, we build our four interventions as transversal lines cutting through a social space in which agents with differing stakes participate and reframe the meaning and practice of intelligence. Intelligence professionals not only have to reckon with policymakers, but also increasingly with law enforcement agents, representatives from the science and technology sector, judges, lawyers, activists, and Internet users themselves. Each move takes a step further away from the intelligence cycle by introducing new empirical sites, actors, and stakes. |
| format |
Journal Article |
| author |
Ben Jaffel, Hager |
| author_facet |
Ben Jaffel, Hager Hoffmann, Alvina Kearns, Oliver Larsson, Sebastian |
| authorStr |
Ben Jaffel, Hager |
| author_letter |
Ben Jaffel, Hager |
| author2 |
Hoffmann, Alvina Kearns, Oliver Larsson, Sebastian |
| author2Str |
Hoffmann, Alvina Kearns, Oliver Larsson, Sebastian |
| title |
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon |
| publisher |
Oxford University Press |
| publishDate |
2020 |
| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42557/
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