Our research spans a wide variety of issues and approaches relating to secrecy and ignorance, with experts on secrecy, law and liberal government; sexualities, race and gender in relation to secrecy; intelligence oversight; scientific and technical knowledge (un)making; methods and methodologies of studying secrecy and ignorance; and cultures of secrecy and insecurity. Our network also includes regional expertise and networks in the US, Europe, the Sahel region in North Africa, as well as expertise in the domains of trans rights, gender and sexuality, migration, chemical weapons, cybersecurity, government transparency, maritime security, counter-terrorism and political extremism.

Current research streams include:

• The practices of secrecy experts, including intelligence organisations and their governance
• Rereading feminist theory, gender and sexuality through secrecy, and exploring the queer origins of secrecy studies as a sub-discipline
• Understanding the (re)production of race, racialisation, and associated structures of inequality and injustice through entanglements with secrecy, suspicion, erasures, and ignorance, including decolonization and decolonial thinking as response
• Rethinking secrecy through revelation as a set of practices and as a concept
• On archives, archival destruction, erasure, and degradation, and memory
• Tracing the ways in which secrecy has made and remakes the world in everyday and exceptional ways
• Expanding geospatial and temporal understandings of secrecy and power
• conspiracy cultures

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