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Politics at the Airport
Peter Adey
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Paperback. Editor(s): Salter, Mark B. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPS; JPWL; KNGV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
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 ... Read moreThis 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. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816650156
SKU
V9780816650156
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About Peter Adey
Mark B. Salter is associate professor of political science at the University of Ottawa.
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