Politics at the airport / / Mark B. Salter, editor

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.12’4--dc22; 363.12/4
• Soggetto topico: International airports - Security measures; Terrorism - Prevention
• Altri autori: SalterMark B
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. It broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, and migration and establishes the airport as critical to the study of politics and global life.Contributors: Peter Adey, Colin J. Bennett, Gillian Fuller, Francisco R. Klauser, Gallya Lahav, David Lyon, Benjamin J. Muller, Valérie November, Jean Ruegg.
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics at the airport
• ISBN: 0-8166-6654-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822433403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II