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Police Drones and the Air: Towards a Volumetric Geopolitics of Security
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Date de parution
2021
In
Swiss Political Science Review
Vol.
27
No
1
De la page
158
A la page
169
Résumé
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The paper explores the aerial dimension of policing and surveillance. It does so by drawing upon select results from a large‐scale survey conducted in 2017 among professional (public and private) drone users in Switzerland. Focusing in particular on the police, the paper shows that the technology not only generates novel ways of looking down from above, but also of looking up from below, thus instilling a kind of air‐mindedness among the police. In making the airspace explicit as an object, and stake of imaginaries, concerns and practices, drones mediate novel ways of relating to the air, understanding it, approaching it and acting in relation to it.</jats:p>
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