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Security, Race, Biopower
. Ed(S): Randell-Moon, Holly; Tippet, Ryan
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Description for Security, Race, Biopower
Hardback. Exploring how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and limit the mobility of bodies in geographies of space and race, this book describes the ways contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value; topics include drone warfare, racial profiling in airports, anti-aging therapies and others. Editor(s): Randell-Moon, Holly; Tippet, Ryan. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFMG; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value in an atmosphere of generalised security, both in relation to categories of race, and within the new possibilities for locating and managing bodies in space. The topics covered include: drone warfare, the global distribution of HIV-prevention drugs, racial profiling in airports, Indigenous sovereignty, consumer lifestyle apps and their ecological and labour costs, and anti-aging therapies.
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This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value in an atmosphere of generalised security, both in relation to categories of race, and within the new possibilities for locating and managing bodies in space. The topics covered include: drone warfare, the global distribution of HIV-prevention drugs, racial profiling in airports, Indigenous sovereignty, consumer lifestyle apps and their ecological and labour costs, and anti-aging therapies.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137554079
SKU
V9781137554079
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Randell-Moon, Holly; Tippet, Ryan
Holly Randell-Moon is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has published on race, religion, and secularism in the journals Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, borderlands and Social Semiotics and in the edited collections Mediating Faiths (2010) and Religion After Secularization in Australia (2015). Ryan Tippet is a doctoral candidate at the University of ... Read more
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