Meuller, Benjamin.

Security, risk and the biometric state governing borders and bodies / [electronic resource] : Benjamin J. Muller. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - 1 online resource (ix, 150 p.) - PRIO new security studies . - PRIO new security studies. .

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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