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Security, Risk and the Biometric State : Governing Borders and Bodies.
Examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | PRIO new security studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.