Work Package 2 Lead
I will be leading Work Package 3 in this project, investigating how the project’s broad questions of Internet surveillance, data analytics, accountability and legitimacy interact with everyday online behaviours in UK, Finland and Norway. This builds on my own research, which is broadly in the areas of political and social geography, focusing in particular on:
· Online networks, communities and spaces and the implications of these spaces for communication, organisation and activism. Recent foci include science blogging and human trafficking.
· Policing, crime, surveillance, data and policy: changes to crime, policing and law enforcement, alongside broader debates about evidence, policy and data analysis.
· Conflict: the development and deployment of different ways of fighting, from the networked warfare of Afghan insurgency through to the ‘war on terror’ and urban warfare.
Selected recent publications
Mendel, J. and Riesch, H. (2017) “Gadflies Biting Science Communication: Engagement, Tricksters, and Ambivalence Online”. Science Communication (39: 5).
Mendel, J., Fyfe, N. and den Heyer, G. (2017) “Does police size matter? A review of the evidence regarding restructuring police organisations”. Police Practice & Research: An International Journal (18: 1).
Mendel, J. and Sharapov, K. (2016) “Human trafficking and online networks: policy, analysis and ignorance”. Antipode (48:3).
Mendel, J. (2015) “Urban Violence and Militarisation”. In the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier).
Riesch, H. and Mendel, J. (2014) “Science Blogging: Networks, Boundaries and Limitations”. Science as Culture (23:1).
Hall, A. and Mendel, J. (2013) “Digital traces and the ‘print’ of threat: targeting populations in the war on terror” in P. Harvey, E. Casella, G. Evans, H. Knox, C. McLean, E. Silva, N. Thoburn and K. Woodward (Eds.) Objects and Materials. A Routledge Companion (London: Routledge).
Hall, A. and Mendel, J. (2012) “Threatprints, Threads and Triggers: Imaginaries of Risk in the ‘War on Terror’”. Journal of Cultural Economy (5:1).
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