Politics At the Airport

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 state Few 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Adey, Mark B. Salter, Mark B. (EDT)/ Adey Salter
• Con la collaborazione di: Mark B. Salter (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Minnesota Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.07.2008
• EAN: 9780816650156
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-5015-6
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura