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The transparent traveler : the performance and culture of airport security /

Rachel Hall characterizes post-9/11 airport security practices as operating under the "aesthetics of transparency," which requires passengers to perform innocence and be open to inspection-those who cannot are deemed opaque and presumed to be a threat. Travelers are no longer innocent unti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Rachel, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : rethinking asymmetrical transparency: risk management, the aesthetics of transparency, and the global politics of mobility
  • The art of performing consumer and suspect : transparency chic as a model of privileged, securitized mobility
  • Opacity effects : the performance and documentation of terrorist embodiment
  • Transparency effects : the implementation of full-body and biometric scanners at US airports
  • How to perform voluntary transparency more efficiently : airport security pedagogy in the post-9/11 era
  • Performing involuntary transparency : the TSA's turn to behavior detection
  • Conclusion. transparency beyond US airports : international airports, "flying" checkpoints, controlled-tone zones, and lateral behavior detection.