Based on an ethnographic research at Václav Havel Airport Prague, this article explores how contemporary airport security might by studied using an ANT-inspired approach. Security provision can be understood as a set of chains of translation that produces security and threat. Incoming actors, whose statuses are initially indeterminate, are translated into secure or threatening ones. This framing enables the uncovering of division and movement as the logics guide the system performance. The use of this perspective enables us to explicate the system’s functioning in practice, including its inherent challenges and social consequences.

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机场安全通过划分和移动进行翻译

本文基于布拉格瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔机场的民族志研究，探讨了如何使用受 ANT 启发的方法研究当代机场安全。安全提供可以理解为一组产生安全和威胁的转换链。初始状态不确定的新来的参与者被转化为安全或威胁的参与者。当逻辑指导系统性能时，这种框架可以揭示划分和运动。使用这一观点使我们能够在实践中解释系统的功能，包括其固有的挑战和社会后果。