Benjamin Muller

Security, Risk and the Biometric State (eBook, ePUB)

Governing Borders and Bodies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135161392
• Artikelnr.: 42981146

Autorenporträt

Benjamin J. Muller is Assistant Professor in International Relations and Political Theory at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He completed his PhD in the School of Politics and International Studies at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Security, Risk, and the Biometric State: Governing Borders
and Bodies 2. Are You Who You Say You Are? Biometrics and the Management of
Borders and Bodies 3. Suspect(ing) Biometrics: Identity, Security and
National ID Cards 4. Catastrophe, Narrative, and the Failure of Imagination
5. Securing the Political Imagination: Popualr Culture, The Security
Dispositif and the Biometric State 6. A North American Biometric State? 7.
Securitizing the Global Norm of Identity: Biometrics and Homo Sacer in
Fallujah. Conclusion