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Acknowledgments | p. viii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Predators, Terrorists and Enhanced Drivers | p. 1 |
Critical Security Studies and International Political Sociology | p. 3 |
Structure of the Book | p. 4 |
Security, Risk and the Biometric State: governing borders and bodies | p. 8 |
Who Are You, and Where Are You Going? | p. 8 |
Liberty, Security and Biopolitics | p. 10 |
Risk | p. 13 |
(In)Security | p. 15 |
Technology, Identity and Biometrics | p. 16 |
The Biometric State | p. 23 |
Are You Who You Say You Are? Biometrics and the management of borders and bodies | p. 25 |
1989, 9/11 and All That... | p. 25 |
Discourses of Homeland (In)security | p. 27 |
Weeding-out Citizenship: theaters of security and homegrown terror | p. 31 |
Discourse(s) of World Politics, Homegrown Terror and "Identity Management" | p. 37 |
The Subject(ivity) of the Homegrown Terrorist | p. 38 |
Suspect(ing) Biometrics: identity, security and national ID cards | p. 40 |
Securing Identities | p. 40 |
Suspect(ing) Biometrics | p. 42 |
The Technology | p. 42 |
The Politics | p. 45 |
Suspect(ing) Rationales | p. 47 |
ID Card Assemblage? | p. 50 |
Biometric Borders and ID Card Assemblages | p. 52 |
Catastrophe, Narrative and the Failure of Imagination | p. 54 |
"Security Is a State of Mind" | p. 54 |
9/11 and the "Failure of Imagination": vulnerability and catastrophe | p. 56 |
Pre-assessing Risk: failing to imagine or imaginative failure? | p. 60 |
Catastrophic Case Studies | p. 63 |
Star Trek Border Politics | p. 63 |
"Miracle on the Hudson" | p. 65 |
Knowing a Black Swan When We See One | p. 67 |
Securing the Political Imagination: popular culture, the security dispositif and the biometric state | p. 71 |
Risk, Technology, Imagination | p. 71 |
Popular Culture, Constitution, Imagination | p. 73 |
Security, Life, Dispositif | p. 77 |
Performing the Biometric State: surveillance and what (kil)led the self | p. 79 |
Biopolitics Redux: contaminated genres and the desert of the real | p. 81 |
Experimenting with the Real and A Cure for Surveillance | p. 85 |
A North American Biometric State? | p. 89 |
Liberty, Security and the Canada/US Border | p. 89 |
WHTI: (re)designing borders and bodies | p. 91 |
(In)visibility, (In)security and Biometric Bodies | p. 94 |
Just Visiting: biometrics and (in)visibility in North American border security | p. 96 |
Where to from Here? | p. 100 |
Securitizing the Global Norm of Identity: biometrics and homo sacer in Fallujah | p. 102 |
Introduction | p. 102 |
Twenty-first-century Guernica: (dis)ordering places | p. 103 |
Homo Sacer and the State of Exception | p. 105 |
Biometrics and the BAT | p. 107 |
Fallujah: "exceptional" place and the construction of homo sacer | p. 111 |
Conclusion | p. 116 |
Conclusion - Borders, Bodies and Biometrics: the train has left the station | p. 118 |
Docile Bodies to Biometric Bodies | p. 118 |
Biometrics: what is it good for? | p. 121 |
The Cultural Landscape: Peace Arch and the "undefended border" | p. 123 |
Liberty, Security and the Disempowerment of the Borderlands | p. 125 |
Notes | p. 128 |
Bibliography | p. 132 |
Index | p. 145 |
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