Nijat Eldarov
PhD fellow
Nijat Eldarov is a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests lie at the intersection of critical security studies, science and technology studies, and critical computational studies. More specifically, he studies how security governance in technocapitalism comes to increasingly embrace dynamic, network-based, more-than-human rationalities of systems-cybernetic approach, beyond modernist discourse of population management.
Prior to joining the University of Copenhagen, Nijat Eldarov studied International Relations at the Academy of Public Administration (BA) in Azerbaijan (2013-2017), and European Affairs (MSc) at Lund University in Sweden (2017-2019).
Office hours: Tuesday 14-15
Primary fields of research
- Critical security studies
- Science and technology studies
- Critical computational studies
- EU's migration policy
- Post-Fordism
- Emerging technologies
- Uncertainty management
Current research
Nijat Eldarov's Ph.D. project investigates how emerging technologies, such as AI, biotechnologies, and nanotechnologies are produced at the EU's borders, in countering networked threats, such as migrant smuggling and drug trafficking. Situated at the "material turn" in critical security studies, the project aims to answer two sub-research questions. The first question deals with how networked arrangements of security device production create innovative modes of governance. The second question, on the other hand, examines how modern and postmodern forms of securitization create distinctive patterns of (b)ordering.
Nijat's Ph.D. project is supervised by Maja Zehfuss (primary supervisor) and Jonathan Austin (co-supervisor).
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