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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hall, Rachel, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
United States. > Transportation Security Administration.
United States. > Transportation Security Administration
2000-2099
Airports > Security measures > United States.
Aeronautics, Commercial > Security measures > United States.
Transports aériens > Sécurité > Mesures > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Aeronautics, Commercial > Security measures
Airports > Security measures
Social conditions
Flughafen
Flugpassagier
Sicherheitskontrolle
Privatsphäre
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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