Security, risk and the biometric state : governing borders and bodies / / Benjamin J. Muller
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.285 |
| 929.9 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Biometric identification |
| Security systems | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 created and the effect they have upon the politics of citizenship and immigration, especially how they contribute to the treatment of citizens as suspects. Finally and most importa |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Security, risk and the biometric state |
| ISBN: | 1-135-16140-2 |
| 1-282-57147-8 | |
| 9786612571473 | |
| 0-203-85804-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458980503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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PRIO New Security Studies