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Security, risk and the biometric state [electronic resource] : governing borders and bodies / Benjamin J. Muller.

By: Series: PRIO new security studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 150 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780203858042 (ebk : PDF)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 929.9
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
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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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.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.