B. Ajana

Governing Through Biometrics

The Biopolitics of Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-32161-8
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780230321618
• ISBN-10: 0230321615
• Artikelnr.: 36271713

Autorenporträt

Btihaj Ajana is Lecturer in Culture, Digital Humanities and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Biometrics: The Remediation of Measure 2. Homo Carded: Exception and Identity Systems 3. Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics 4. Identity Securitization and Biometric Citizenship 5. Rethinking Community and the Political Through Being-With Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Rezensionen

"This book breaks new ground and can inform any researcher or student who wishes to pursue biometrics in more detail. It is a book that is suggestive of the need for us to act quickly so that we might see the intensification of biometric processes and understand them in terms of their broader social implications for identity, citizenship and community." - Information, Communciation and Society