Security, risk and the biometric state governing borders and bodies - Müller, Benjamin; T&F eBooks (London ; New York : Routledge, 2010)
Introduction -- 1. Security, risk and the biometric state : governing borders and bodies -- 2. Are you who you say you are? Biometrics and the management of borders and bodies -- 3. Suspect(ing) biometrics : identity, security and national ID cards -- 4. Catastrophe, narrative and the failure of imagination -- 5. Securing the political imagination : popular culture, the security dispositif and the biometric state -- 6. A North American biometric state? -- 7. Securitizing the global norm of identity : biometrics and homo sacer in Fallujah -- Conclusion : borders, bodies and biometrics : the train has left the station.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [132]-144) and index.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Keywords: Biometric identification; Security systems; Electronic books