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Delf Rothe

@delfrothe.bsky.social
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Senior researcher @IFSHHamburg | Critical security and resilience, climate change and the Anthropocene, technology and surveillance. Views my own

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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
What happens when the decision to grant or deny asylum is delegated to an algorithm? Group 5 produced a podcast episode that follows an imagined migrant arriving at the EU's external border – and uses that narrative to unpack the real and growing role of AI in European border and migration control.
A high metal fence and watchtower at the Spanish-Moroccan border in Melilla, under a clear blue sky.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How is AI-based video surveillance deployed in Hamburg's public spaces? This group explored the public perception of AI-assisted CCTV cameras through document analysis and a mini-survey conducted at Hansaplatz and Hachmannplatz in Hamburg.
A blue and white graphic showing a CCTV surveillance camera, stylized as a warning sign.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
What makes a public space feel secure – or insecure? And who, or what, produces that feeling? Drawing on Actor-Network-Theory and ethnographic field visits, a third group produced a digital map of security infrastructure at important public spaces in Hamburg.
A screenshot of an OpenStreetMap showing the area around Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, with streets, buildings, and points of interest labelled.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The ecological cost of AI is often invisible. Group 2 developed an innovative methodology for "interviewing AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Grok, and DeepSeek about their own environmental impact and turned the results into a homepage.
A digital artwork showing a split scene: on the left, rows of server infrastructure bathed in blue light; on the right, a barren landscape with dead trees, cooling towers, and animals on cracked earth — connected by glowing roots.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Who owns AI? Project 1 mapped the global power structures behind large AI systems – tracing the relations between public administrations in Hamburg, big tech companies, and data workers across the globe.
A network map on a dark world map background, showing connections between major AI companies and institutions including OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others, created with the Kumu mapping tool.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
On my way to the annual conference of the @dvpw.bsky.social Critical Security Studies working group. You can still register for our roundtable "Ten years of critical security studies in Germany: Taking stock", tonight at 6:15 p.m., with a stellar lineup of speakers www.linkedin.com/posts/jochen...
A picture of a laptop on an ICE Deutsche Bahn train. On the screen, one can see a PowerPoint slide saying "Ten Years of Critical Security Studies in Germany: Taking stock".
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Yeah, it’s done! Glückwunsch an alle Aktiven und Helfenden 🥳
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Oh mein Gott ist das spannend 😱 weiter Daumen drücken...
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Am Sonntag fällt die Entscheidung über den Zukunftsentscheid in Hamburg. Geh zur Abstimmung und informiere Freund*innen und Bekannte – jede Stimme zählt!
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Ja warum bloß? 🤔 Es ist ein Rätsel...
Screenshot einer Zeitungsheadline mit der Frage "Warum sind plötzlich alle ausgebrannt?"
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Stefano Guzzini concludes the issue with a plea for "Foregrounding politics". He counters a geopolitical discourse that externalises nature with an inside-out perspective that centers the ideas of affected communities, and advocates an ‘ethics of prudence’. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A protest sign at a climate demonstration saying "Indigenous Justice is Climate Justice".
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In the forum "At the crossroads," @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social, David Chandler, Marwa Daoudy, @ritafloyd.bsky.social, and @dahlia-cs.bsky.social discuss how our questions, concepts, and methodologies must change if we take the ecological crisis seriously www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An aerial view of Shiosakibashi intersection from Dentsu Headquarters Building in Tokyo, Japan
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@mattuq.bsky.social studies how international and domestic bodies mobilise security discourses in relation to climate change and explores the institutional prospects and hurdles for an ecological security agenda. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A satellite image of a river delta in green and beige colors.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@simondalby.bsky.social's paper "Reframing climate security" discusses how discourses and practices of climate security would need to change if the planetary dimension of the crisis, rather than national security concerns, were to take centre stage. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A satellite in space is seen in front of the Earth with visible clouds.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@giobettini.bsky.social & Anna Casaglia offer a timely empirical case study of how illiberal politics shape the climate-security nexus by unpacking "Italy’s right-wing approach to climate migration and security". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A flag of the Fratelli d'Italia party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hangs on a barrier at a public event.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In "The slow violence of climate security," Shannon O'Lear brings attention to the overlooked, incremental harms of climate change, complicating fast-moving security narratives. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A satellite image of the Thar Desert in India.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our framing paper "Recomposing the climate–security nexus", by @chrhentschel.bsky.social, @uschroeder.bsky.social, and me, proposes to theorize climate security as a composition to capture its material, discursive, temporal, and affective dimensions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A collage-like illustration of the interlinkages between climate change and security
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
And so my journey to #EWIS2025 begins… with a cancelled train. ☹️ Have a drink for me at the reception
Entrance of the Hamburg main train station
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
With inputs by @phil-lottholz.bsky.social, @mariamsalehi.bsky.social, @laurakotzur.bsky.social, @marcokrueger.bsky.social, and others, we discussed the relationship between activism and scholarship. And we did a great guided tour on social struggles in St.Pauli
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Inspiring first day of our "Co-Laborating for Change: The future of peace and security in an age of crises" workshop hosted by @ifshhamburg.bsky.social in Hamburg.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
After several years in the making, our report on participatory peace and security research has finally seen the light of day. Just in time for our @ifshhamburg.bsky.social workshop on Doing Peace at betahaus in Hamburg. You can access the report here: ifsh.de/en/news-deta...
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
CfP: Co-Laborating for Change? The future of peace and security in an age of crises 25-27 June 2025 @ifshhamburg.bsky.social We are looking for contributions that engage with participatory and collaborative research methods in the study of contemporary and future crises ifsh.de/file/Events/...
A laboratory of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory, 6 King Street, 1899
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The flaws of the capitalist system are so obvious (destruction of the planet, concentration of wealth and power, etc.) that it is completely insane that this is not generally perceived as a problem 💀
Newspaper headline "UBS study finds billionaires’ wealth more than doubled in 10 years".
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
This paper would not have been possible without the generous support of the German Research Foundation, CLICCS @uni-hamburg.de, and @ifshhamburg.bsky.social. Many thanks to @annkathrinb.bsky.social for her support of the project.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
By comparing these various projects, the study identifies three frictions of green resilience as a form of biopolitical government: between visibility and invisibility, knowledge and ignorance, and control and emergence.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
The paper develops its arguments through a paradigmatic case study of various green resilience projects that are part of three major program in New York City – the 9/11 Memorial including the Survivor Tree as, ‘Living Memorials’ and ‘Landscapes of Resilience’.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
I combine field research in New York City, expert interviews, document analysis, and digital methods. Taking inspiration from Jennifer Gabrys I traced how the plants and trees of green resilience projects travel through online platforms, remote methods, as well as online films.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
I theorize green resilience as a composition. This notion stresses both the relational character of resilience - brought about and sustained by a variety of human and non-human actors - as well as the importance of aesthetics and embodied sensual encounters.
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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Our article (with @annkathrinb.bsky.social) "World in the making: On the global visual politics of climate engineering now has an issue (50:1) in @risjnl.bsky.social Very humbled to be in the company of so many excellent authors. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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