Governing Through Biometrics - The Biopolitics of Identity

Zusatztext "This book breaks new ground and can inform any researcher or student who wishes to pursue biometrics in more detail. It is a book that is suggestive of the need for us to act quickly so that we might see the intensification of biometric processes and understand them in terms of their broader social implications for identity! citizenship and community." - Information! Communciation and Society Informationen zum Autor Btihaj Ajana is Lecturer in Culture, Digital Humanities and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK. Klappentext Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies. Zusammenfassung Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Biometrics: The Remediation of Measure 2. Homo Carded: Exception and Identity Systems 3. Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics 4. Identity Securitization and Biometric Citizenship 5. Rethinking Community and the Political Through Being-With Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Biometrics: The Remediation of Measure 2. Homo Carded: Exception and Identity Systems 3. Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics 4. Identity Securitization and Biometric Citizenship 5. Rethinking Community and the Political Through Being-With Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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"This book breaks new ground and can inform any researcher or student who wishes to pursue biometrics in more detail. It is a book that is suggestive of the need for us to act quickly so that we might see the intensification of biometric processes and understand them in terms of their broader social implications for identity, citizenship and community." - Information, Communciation and Society

Product details

• Authors: B Ajana, B. Ajana, Btihaj Ajana
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2013
• EAN: 9780230321618
• ISBN: 978-0-230-32161-8
• No. of pages: 247
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Migration, Verstehen, B, Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Krieg und Verteidigung, Sociology, Human Rights, Anthropology, Criminology, Political Sociology, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social Justice, Crime & criminology, Emigration and immigration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, Human Migration