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"Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies--from arch...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Salter, Mark B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
Subjects:
International airports > Security measures.
Terrorism > Prevention.
Aéroports internationaux > Sécurité > Mesures.
Terrorisme > Prévention.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Safety.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Valérie 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.

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