The Politics of Traceability: How Knowledge, Artifacts, and Beings Have Been Tracked

Name of applicant

Pierre Louis Du Plessis

Title

Assistant Professor

Institution

Aarhus University

Amount

DKK 79,300

Year

2026

Type of grant

Conferences

Summary

Tracing constitutes a technoscientific and political practice that organizes movement, transformation, and relational data into legible systems of knowledge and power. From ancient cartography to contemporary biometric infrastructures, traceability underpins epistemic and governance regimes. This workshop invites critical, interdisciplinary analyses of the traceability as method and critique.

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