BRIAN JEFFERSON's scientific contributions

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... Thus, in accordance with Grove's (2019) claim that statecraft in the Americas (both North and South) remains thoroughly indebted to a state of quasi-permanent counterinsurgency as the very essence of settler colonialism, recent analyses of US domestic security policies have repeatedly highlighted their politically fraught genealogy, especially when they are couched in a vocabulary of epistemically 'neutral', and therefore morally innocuous, digital devices (Benjamin, 2019;Harcourt, 2018;Jefferson, 2020;Scannell, 2018). As opposed to the still common cliché of a technopolitically 'pure' metropolitan template and its subsequent adulteration in the (post)colonial periphery, it thus remains vital to expose how the Global North's supposedly liberal technologies of urban government have been contaminated with markedly non-liberal rationales from the very beginning, decidedly earlier than the sovereign excesses defining the securocratic 'new normal' after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 (Goldstein, 2010). ...