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Informationen zum Autor Rachel Hall Klappentext Rachel Hall is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University, and the author of Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture.¿ Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Rethinking Asymmetrical Transparency: Risk Management, the Aesthetics of Transparency, and the Global Politics of Mobility 1 1. The Art of Performing Consumer and Suspect: Transparency Chic as a Model of Privileged, Securitized Modernity 25 2. Opacity Effects: The Performance and Documentation of Terrorist Embodiment 57 3. Transparency Effects: The Implementation of Full-Body and Biometic Scanners at US Airports 77 4. How to Perform Voluntary Transparency More Efficiently: Airport Security Pedagogy in the Post-9/11 Era 109 5. Performing Involuntary Transparency: The TSA's Turn to Behavior Detection 131 Conclusion. Transparency Beyond US Airports: International Airports, "Flying" Checkpoints, Controlled-Tone Zones, and Lateral Behavior Detection 157 Notes 179 Bibliography 205 Index 219
