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Foreword bySarah Pink. Acknowledgements. Introduction: al-Harakat. Image List. Playlist. A. Smartphone Affordances of the Smartphone. Touch and Crucial Connectivity. Secrets and Smartphones a. Cyborg Cyborg Ethics for an Accountable Multi-modal Anthropology. Kitab al-Manazir and Cyborg Optics. Parallax as a Harakat Move and a Speaking Nearby B. Hanan al-Noerrebro: Affections for the Neighborhood An Urban Habitat - a Typical Blaagaarden Girl. The Ghetto, the Square, Behind the Curtain. Facebook Flirt: The Stabbing of Taher b. What's in a Field Enacting Hybridity. Harakat and Composite Habitus. Perceiving Affordances C. Hijab, Desire, Social Control Entanglements of Free Speech and Veiled Women. 'Playing with the Scarf is Playing with Our Religion'. Modest/Desire. Orientalism, Freedom, State Control. Smartphone as Valve and Part-revolution? Freedom/Choice. So Muslim Women Need Saving? D. Dreams and the Imaginal realm - Alam al-Mîthal The Kidnapping. Moral/Laws. Sab'r enacted and shared in social media. Images and Mirrors. Imaginal realm and Virtuality. Composite Habitus. The Flow of (Mirror) Images and Future-Making. Bibliography. Index.

The context for our discussion is one where drones with cameras are airborne digital information technologies, making up part of larger socio-technical systems. Science and technology (including information technology) are fundamental parts of the political and social worlds we inhabit and of our intimate sense of ourselves. Increasingly, the emerging technologies of (perceived) autonomous material/physical objects in the 'space of humans' are moving in close proximity to our physical bodies - such as self-driving cars and drones. This poses new questions about the social and political worlds we inhabit - and not least about our intimate sense of ourselves and our bodies. In this paper, we address this through the question of how drones in the Danish air space evoke reactions by people experiencing and interacting with the drones. The gendered aspects of a set of concerns related to the presence of drones, emerged in a research project on the public's privacy concerns regarding drones, commissioned by the Danish Transport Authorities. The material is generated through focus group debates and 'experiments' with drone overflights. The reactions are gendered due in part, our research shows, to the knowledge that a drone with a camera attached hovering outside your window or in the backyard, affords the spread of images across the world wide web in a split second. In this paper we explore how the socio-technical assemblage of drones, cameras, human bodies and the Internet tie into and reframe well-known notions of proxemics, privacy, female nudity/modesty and the male gaze.

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"This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional approaches to technology design and innovation; and how a critical anthropology of the way that emerging technologies are experienced in everyday life circumstances offers new insights for future making practices. In pursuing these questions, this book respond to a call for new anthropologies that respond to the current and emerging technological environments in which we live, environments for which thinking critically about the possible, plausible, and impossible futures are no longer sufficient. Taking the next step, this book asserts that anthropology must now propose alternative ways, rooted in ethnography, to approach and engage with what is coming and to contest dominant narratives of industry, policy and government, and to respond to our contemporary context through a public, vocal and interventional approach"--