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.