Bodies as Evidence

Security, Knowledge, and Power
Herausgeber: Maguire, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as Evidence reveal how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed to classify, recognize, and manage human life. Through global case studies that explore biometric identification, border control, forensics, predictive policing, and counterterrorism, the contributors show how security discourses and practices that target the body contribute to new configurations of knowledge and power. At the same time, margins of error, unreliable technologies, and a growing suspicion of scientific evidence in a "post-truth" era contribute to growing insecurity, especially among marginalized populations. Contributors. Carolina Alonso-Bejarano, Gregory Feldman, Francisco J. Ferrándiz, Daniel M. Goldstein, Ieva Jusionyte, Amade M'charek, Mark Maguire, Joseph P. Masco, Ursula Rao, Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Joseba Zulaika, Nils Zurawski

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781478002949
• ISBN-10: 1478002948
• Artikelnr.: 50439044

Autorenporträt

Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao, and Nils Zurawski, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bodies as Evidence / Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao  1
1. The Truth of the Error: Making Identity and Security through Biometric
Discrimination / Elida Jacobsen and Ursula Rao  24
2. Injured by the Border: Security Buildup, Migrant Bodies, and Emergency
Response in Southern Arizona / Ieva Jusionyte  43
3. E-Terrify: Securitized Immigration and Biometric Surveillance in the
Workplace / Daniel M. Goldstein and Carolina Alonso-Bejarano  62
4. "Dead-Bodies-at-the-Border": Distributed Evidence and Emerging Forensic
Infrastructure for Identificiation / Amade M'charek  89
5. The Transitional Lives of Crimes against Humanity: Forensic Evidence
under Changing Political Circumstances / Antonius C. G. M. Robben and
Francisco J. Ferrándiz  110
6. Policing Future Crimes / Mark Maguire  137
7. "Intelligence" and "Evidence": Sovereign Authority and the Differences
that Words Make / Gregory Feldman  159
8. The Secrecy/Threat Matrix / Joseph P. Masco  175
9. What Do Your Want? Evidence and Fantasy in the War on Terror / Joseba
Zulaika  201
Conclusion: Discontinuities and Diversity / Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao 
228
Contributors  237
Index  241