Louise Amoore Explained

Louise Jane Amoore, (born 1972) is a British geographer and academic, who specialises in geopolitics, biometrics, state security and the ethics of machine learning. She is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University.^{[1] [2]} From 2017 to 2023, she was a member of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), a non-departmental advisory body which is the "only formally accountable ethics committee" within the UK Government's Home Office.^{[3] [4]}

In 1998, she graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from Newcastle University for a doctoral thesis titled "The social roots of global change: states, firms and the restructuring of work".^[5]

In July 2023, Amoore was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^{[6] [7]}

Selected works

• Book: Amoore . Louise . Globalization contested: an international political economy of work . 2002 . Manchester University Press . Manchester . 978-0719060960.
• Book: Amoore . Louise . The global resistance reader . 2005 . Routledge . London . 978-0415335843.
• Amoore . Louise . Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror . Political Geography . March 2006 . 25 . 3 . 336–351 . 10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.02.001.
• Book: Amoore . Louise . de Goede . Marieke . Risk and the war on terror . 2008 . Routledge Taylor & Francis Group . London New York . 978-0415443241.
• Amoore . Louise . Data Derivatives: On the Emergence of a Security Risk Calculus for Our Times . Theory, Culture & Society . November 2011 . 28 . 6 . 24–43 . 10.1177/0263276411417430.
• Book: Amoore . Louise . The politics of possibility: risk and security beyond probability . 2013 . Duke University Press . Durham, NC . 978-0822355458.
• Book: Amoore . Louise . Cloud ethics: algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others . 2020 . Duke University Press . Durham, NC . 978-1478007784.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Staff profile: Professor Louise Amoore . Durham University . 19 February 2024 . en-gb.
2. Web site: Professor Louise Amoore FBA . The British Academy . 19 February 2024 . en.
3. Web site: Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group reappoints seven members . GOV.UK . Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group . 19 February 2024 . en . 19 March 2021.
4. Web site: Biometric data in the age of algorithms - RGS . www.rgs.org . Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) . 19 February 2024 . en . 2023.
5. Amoore . Louise . 1998 . The social roots of global change: states, firms and the restructuring of work . PhD . Newcastle University . 19 February 2024.
6. Web site: The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows showcasing the breadth and depth of humanities and social sciences research . The British Academy . 19 February 2024 . en . 21 July 2023.
7. Web site: Professor Louise Amoore named British Academy Fellow - Durham University . www.durham.ac.uk . Durham University . 19 February 2024 . en-gb . 21 July 2023.