What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?

Author(s): Andrew C. Dwyer, Clare Stevens, Lilly Pijnenburg Muller, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Pip Thornton
Journal Title: International Political Sociology
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2022

In this International Political Sociology article, Andrew C. Dwyer, Clare Stevens, Lilly Pijnenburg Muller, CSS’ Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Pip Thornton 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, the authors argue that, as much as cyber security 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 the technological moment. That is, to question who and what cybersecurity is for, how to engage as academics, and what it could mean to undo cyber security in ways that can reassess and challenge power structures in the twenty-first century.

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