CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Kaklauskaite, Milda |
|---|---|
| Title | The 'killer robot' debate and human emancipation: how feminism can help Critical Security Studies to remain critical? |
| Summary | One of the main features of undergoing revolution of military affairs (RMA) is the development of autonomous military technology or so-called “killer robots”. The increasing need for speed and precision in military operations has made human activities significantly dependent on technology. This leads to the gradual decline of human-decision making and their disappearance from the battlefield. Likewise, as drone warfare indicates, it has profoundly changed the nature of violence. Violence is no longer limited to the clear political and territorial boundaries of interstate conflict, but happens everywhere. However, these developments challenge the CSS’ emancipatory human security agenda. This thesis, therefore, asks how CSS can re-engage with emancipatory human security practices at the advent of robotic warfare and post-human subjectivities. Building on Booth’s ‘security as emancipation” approach, Wyn Jones conceptualizes critical approach of technology that helps to reveal the ambivalent nature of technologies and identify the emancipatory possibilities within the existing world order. However, the existing CSS approach to technology and emancipation does not fully capture the ways how the changing modes of contemporary warfare affects human individuals and emancipatory security politics. This thesis argues that in order to escape this cul-de-sac, CSS should re-engage with feminist approaches that comprehensively engage with the relationship between contemporary military technology and human individuals. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/kaklauskaite_milda.pdf |
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