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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782806203321

Titolo

Politics at the airport [[electronic resource] /] / Mark B. Salter, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6654-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

SalterMark B

Disciplina

363.12’4--dc22

363.12/4

Soggetti

International airports - Security measures

Terrorism - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Airport assemblage / Mark B. Salter -- The global airport : managing space, speed, and security / Mark B. Salter -- Filtering flows, friends, and foes : global surveillance / David Lyon -- Unsafe at any altitude : the comparative politics of no-fly lists in the United States and Canada / Colin J. Bennett -- Mobility and border security : the U.S. aviation system, the state, and the rise of public-private partnerships / Gallya Lahav -- Airport surveillance between public and private interests : CCTV at Geneva International Airport / Francisco R. Klauser, Jean Ruegg, and Valerie November -- Travelers, borders, dangers : locating the political at the biometric border / Benjamin J. Muller -- Mobilities and modulations : the airport as a difference machine / Peter Adey -- Welcome to windows 2.1 : motion aesthetics at the airport / Gillian Fuller.