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Politics At the Airport

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Mark B. Salter is associate professor of political science at the University of Ottawa. Klappentext Establishes the airport as a crucial site in the rise of the surveillance stateFew sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the international airport.Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies-from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to "no-fly lists" and the privatization of border control-now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers. This provocative volume broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, bureaucracy, and migration while establishing the airport as critical to the study of politics and global life.Contributors: Peter Adey, Colin J. Bennett, Gillian Fuller, Francisco R. Klauser, Gallya Lahav, David Lyon, Benjamin J. Muller, Valérie November, Jean Ruegg.

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Authors Peter Adey, Mark B. Salter, Mark B. (EDT)/ Adey Salter
Assisted by Mark B. Salter (Editor)
Publisher University Of Minnesota Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.07.2008
 
EAN 9780816650156
ISBN 978-0-8166-5015-6
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 146 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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