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1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction : rethinking asymmetrical transparency: risk management, the aesthetics of transparency, and the global politics of mobility -- The art of performing consumer and suspect : transparency chic as a model of privileged, securitized mobility -- Opacity effects : the performance and documentation of terrorist embodiment -- Transparency effects : the implementation of full-body and biometric scanners at US airports -- How to perform voluntary transparency more efficiently : airport security pedagogy in the post-9/11 era -- Performing involuntary transparency : the TSA's turn to behavior detection -- Conclusion. transparency beyond US airports : international airports, "flying" checkpoints, controlled-tone zones, and lateral behavior detection |
| Summary |
Rachel Hall characterizes post-9/11 airport security practices as operating under the "aesthetics of transparency," which requires passengers to perform innocence and be open to inspection-those who cannot are deemed opaque and presumed to be a threat. Travelers are no longer innocent until proven guilty; they are guilty until proven transparent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
United States. Transportation Security Administration.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Transportation Security Administration. fast (OCoLC)fst00769055 |
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Airports -- Security measures -- United States
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Aeronautics, Commercial -- Security measures -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Aeronautics, Commercial -- Security measures.
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Airports -- Security measures.
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Flughafen
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Social conditions.
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Flugpassagier
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Sicherheitskontrolle
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Privatsphäre
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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United States.
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822375296 |
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082237529X |
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