Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production: Towards a reflexive practice

Fabio Cristiano, Xymena Kurowska, Tim Stevens, Louise Marie Hurel, Noran Shafik Fouad, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Dennis Broeders, Tobias Liebetrau, James Shires

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How does a reflexive scholarly practice matter for producing useful cybersecurity knowledge and policy? We argue that staking relevance without engaging in reflexivity diminishes the usefulness of knowledge produced both in academia and in policy. To advance a reflexive research agenda in cybersecurity, this forum offers a collective interrogation of the liminal positionality of the cybersecurity scholar. We examine the politics of ‘the making of’ cybersecurity expertise as knowledge practitioners who are located across and in between the diverse and overlapping fields of academia, diplomacy and policy. Cybersecurity expertise, and the practices of the cybersecurity epistemic community more broadly, rely heavily on the perceived applicability and actionability of knowledge outputs, on the practical dependency on policy practitioners regarding access, and thus on the continuous negotiation of hierarchies of knowledge. Participants in this forum reflect on their research practice of negotiating such dilemmas. Collectively, we draw on these contributions to identify obstacles and opportunities towards realising a reflexive research practice in cybersecurity.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)331–364
JournalJournal of Cyber Policy
Volume8
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jan 2024

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