Recoding Reproductive Politics: Emerging Struggles at the Frontier of Tech-Capitalism

重新编码生殖政治：技术资本主义前沿的新兴斗争

• 批准号: ES/X007030/1
• 负责人: Madaleine Tillyard
• 金额: $ 12.43万
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX007030%2F1
• 关键词: Recoding; Reproductive; Politics; Emerging; Struggles

In the digital age, governments, political groups and corporations are increasingly integrating digital technologies into their infrastructures (Eubanks 2017; Tillyard 2019). As a result, networked and digital technologies are often at the forefront of contemporary social justice challenges and opportunities. Scholars and activists have responded to these changes by drawing attention to the ways that digital technologies, and the infrastructures that link them, reproduce structural inequality, but can also be vital tools for people to organise politically and effectuate change (Benjamin 2019; Dubrofsky and Magnet 2015; Noble 2018; Zuboff 2019). With this in mind, this project interrogates the role of the tech-industry in an increasingly contentious social, economic and political arena in the United States: reproductive politics. Building on my existing research, and through the inclusion of additional data, I will produce a monograph during the fellowship that analyses the ways that social, political and economic struggles over reproduction are being reconstituted in the information age. Social and biological reproduction are increasingly at the centre of political division and struggle (Briggs 2017; Franklin and Ginsburg 2019). Moreover, in the context of resurgent nostalgic nativist discourses in Europe and the United States, the politics of welfare, abortion access, housing and border control have (re)emerged in recent years as prominent political fault lines. In my PhD, I argued that the for-profit technology sector is an increasingly important player in this politics by examining three key areas: (1) the emerging digital infrastructures of anti-abortion groups, (2) the role of electronic monitoring and data-base technologies in family separation and immigration enforcement, and (3) the expansion of tech-speculative urban gentrification and housing insecurity. Florida, significant for its social and political location as a border state in the American south, serves as a site and point of departure for these infrastructural studies, researched through extensive fieldwork. The monograph, Recoding Reproductive Politics: Emerging Struggles at the Frontier of Tech-Capitalism, builds on this work by developing case studies 2 and 3. Through the fellowship, I will include a new data-set of 15 interviews, that will augment the existing infrastructural studies with the perspectives of legal experts, business stakeholders and policy decision-makers. These insights are vital to include in monograph, as they shed important light on the ways that political and economic objectives are shaping the technological infrastructures in question, connecting the fieldwork to the broader national and transnational contexts. The proposed research project's originality and impact also lies in its methodological approach. For my doctoral project I developed a unique methodology that combines site-specific fieldwork, policy analysis, media analysis and interviews to map and untangle the inner workings of tech-infrastructures. This pioneering work will inform the design and implementation of the other two impact orientated outputs for this project: a symposium/workshop and an online resource. Through additional training, I will develop my expertise in data-mining research methods in order to deliver a virtual symposium/workshop that will bring together advocates, academics and civil society groups from the US and the UK. The workshop will explore and map the involvement of for-profit technology companies in one of the areas explored by the project: border control and immigration enforcement. The third project output, an online resource and tool-kit will be host data mined by myself and others that maps the landscape of private sector actors developing technology for immigration and border enforcement in the US and the UK.

在数字时代，政府、政治团体和企业越来越多地将数字技术整合到其基础设施中（Eubanks 2017; Tillyard 2019）。因此，网络和数字技术往往处于当代社会正义挑战和机遇的前沿。学者和活动人士对这些变化做出了回应，他们提请人们注意数字技术以及连接它们的基础设施再现结构性不平等的方式，但也可以成为人们组织政治和实现变革的重要工具（Benjamin 2019； Dubrofsky和Magnet 2015； Noble 2018; Zuboff 2019）。考虑到这一点，这个项目质疑了科技产业在美国日益有争议的社会、经济和政治舞台上的角色：生殖政治。在我现有研究的基础上，并通过纳入额外的数据，我将在奖学金期间出版一本专著，分析在信息时代，社会、政治和经济方面的再生产斗争正在重新形成的方式。社会和生物再生产日益成为政治分裂和斗争的中心（Briggs 2017; Franklin and Ginsburg 2019）。此外，在欧洲和美国怀旧本土主义话语复苏的背景下，福利政治、堕胎渠道、住房和边境管制近年来（重新）成为突出的政治断层线。在我的博士学位中，我认为营利性技术部门在这一政治中扮演着越来越重要的角色，通过研究三个关键领域：(1)反堕胎团体的新兴数字基础设施，(2)电子监控和数据库技术在家庭分离和移民执法中的作用，以及(3)技术投机的城市中产阶级化和住房不安全的扩大。佛罗里达州作为美国南部的一个边境州，其社会和政治位置具有重要意义，通过广泛的实地调查研究，它是这些基础设施研究的地点和出发点。专著《重新编码生殖政治：技术资本主义前沿的新兴斗争》建立在这项工作的基础上，发展了案例研究2和3。通过该奖学金，我将纳入一个由15个访谈组成的新数据集，这将从法律专家、商业利益相关者和政策决策者的角度来补充现有的基础设施研究。这些见解在专著中是至关重要的，因为它们揭示了政治和经济目标塑造相关技术基础设施的方式，将实地工作与更广泛的国家和跨国背景联系起来。拟议的研究项目的独创性和影响还在于其方法方法。在我的博士项目中，我开发了一种独特的方法，结合了特定地点的实地考察、政策分析、媒体分析和访谈，来绘制和理清技术基础设施的内部运作。这项开拓性工作将为本项目另外两项面向影响的产出的设计和实施提供参考：专题讨论会/讲习班和在线资源。通过额外的培训，我将发展我在数据挖掘研究方法方面的专业知识，以便举办一个虚拟研讨会/讲习班，将美国和英国的倡导者、学者和民间社会团体聚集在一起。研讨会将探讨并规划营利性技术公司在该项目探索的领域之一：边境管制和移民执法中的参与情况。第三个项目产出是一个在线资源和工具包，它将托管由我和其他人挖掘的数据，这些数据描绘了美国和英国私营部门参与者开发移民和边境执法技术的情况。