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UNINA9910792463803321 |
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Autore |
Muller Benjamin |
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Titolo |
Security, risk and the biometric state : governing borders and bodies / / Benjamin J. Muller |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-16139-9 |
1-135-16140-2 |
1-282-57147-8 |
9786612571473 |
0-203-85804-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Collana |
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PRIO New Security Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biometric identification |
Security systems |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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: Popular 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 - Borders, Bodies and Biometrics: The train has left the stationNotes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has accelerated, giving rise to the term 'biometric state'. This book explores how these 'virtual borders' are |
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