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Thinking Infrastructurally (LAW-DS-TINFRA-24)

LAW-DS-TINFRA-24

Description

The cross-disciplinary field of “infrastructure studies” has recently captured the imagination of legal scholars interested in global and planetary ordering, technology regulation, securitization, and other topics. But what does it mean to “think infrastructurally”?

This seminar discusses ways of engaging productively with insights from other disciplines that have studied infrastructures across space and time, in particular in the field of science and technology studies (STS): How do infrastructures differ from systems, networks, or platforms? How are infrastructures regulated – and how could they be regulated differently? Which infrastructures underpin regulation – and can infrastructure itself be understood as a form of regulation?

Thinking infrastructurally can open-up pathways for analytical, critical, and normative inquiries from law and policy perspectives. The seminar will be attuned to researchers’ own interests and projects (facilitated through short presentations).

Attendance and active participation required. Assignments include response papers and a short case study presentation of an infrastructure of relevance to the researchers’ own projects.

First, Second & Third Term: registration from 26 to 30 September 2024

Reading List: https://readinglist.eui.eu/leganto/public/39EUI_INST/lists/2271876380008406?auth=SAML&idpCode=SAML_LEGANTO 

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