| Description |
1 online resource (161 pages) |
| Series |
PRIO New Security Studies |
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PRIO new security studies
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 |
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Conclusion Borders, Bodies and Biometrics: The train has left the stationNotes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Biometric identification.
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Security systems.
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security systems.
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Biometric identification
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Security systems
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203858042 |
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0203858042 |
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1282571478 |
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9781282571471 |
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