Security, risk and the biometric state : governing borders and bodies / Benjamin J. Muller.
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TextSeries: PRIO new security studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Description: ix, 150 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415484404 (hardcover); 0415484405 (hardcover)Subject(s): Biometric identification | Security systemsLOC classification: TK7882.B56 | M85 2010Online resources: Click here to view Also available as an electronic resource.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [132]-144) and index.
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 station.
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