MAIN PROJECT: “Disarming Algorithmic Warfare: Contemporary reconfigurations of humanitarian disarmament through the case of algorithmic weapons”
I define “algorithmic weapons” as computer systems that generate recommendations for lethal military targeting based on data collected and analysed by artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
This project contributes (1) to further research in political science on disarmament by highlighting the role of discourses, practices and representations in defining and legitimising war and its instruments; (2) to provide empirical insights into the transnational governance of algorithmic weapons, based on rigorous data collection rooted in the experiences of activists and disarmament stakeholders; and (3) to contribute to a theoretical reflection on the political uses of the humanitarian framework by examining the tensions between the protection of civilians, military innovation, and disarmament.
OTHER PROJECTS
GYnopolitics and demographic rearmament: Making feminist sense of France’s (re)militarization (co-author: Emma limane)
This project investigates the complex entanglement of France’s feminist stance with its renewed and contradictory natalist and militarist rhetoric. how do renewed iterations of militarist and natalist discourses and their convergence with state feminism impact the government of women’s reproductive work? Through the original concept of gynopolitics, this article argues that the convergence of feminism, natalism, and militarism leads to a renewed control of women’s bodies via the control of whose bodies they birth and to what extent these new bodies will serve to strengthen or threaten France’s state apparatus.
This project was presented in 2026 at the British International Studies Association conference in Brighton (UK) and at the Société Québécoise de Science Politique.
