PhD defence: Eileen Murphy

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Eileen Murphy has submitted her thesis entitled:

In Service to Security:

Constructing the Authority to Manage European Border Data Infrastructures

My research explores how the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) seeks to make sense of its work and role in the field of European (in)security. Based on fieldwork carried out at the headquarters of the Agency, I identify service as a central logic shaping the ways in which contemporary security is constructed, contested, debated, and defined. This argument is explored across three articles that contribute to key debates in the Critical Security Studies (CSS) literature, exploring matters of (de)securitisation, (de)politicisation and relations of power in the management of border data infrastructures.

Primary Supervisor:
Professor Mitchell Dean

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy

Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisor:

Professor Anna Leander

Department of International Relations/Political Science

Geneva Graduate Institute

Assessment Committee:

Associate Professor Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth (Chair)

Department of Organization

Copenhagen Business School

Professor Alexandra Schwell

Institut für Kulturanalyse

Universität Klagenfurt

Professor Louise Amoore

Department of Geography

University of Durham

Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Reception:
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in the Lobby.