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Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity
B. Ajana
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Description for Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity
Paperback. Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB; JKV; JP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 325.
Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies.
Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349340477
SKU
V9781349340477
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99-15
About B. Ajana
Btihaj Ajana is Lecturer in Culture, Digital Humanities and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK.
Reviews for Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity
"This book breaks new ground and can inform any researcher or student who wishes to pursue biometrics in more detail. It is a book that is suggestive of the need for us to act quickly so that we might see the intensification of biometric processes and understand them in terms of their broader social implications for identity, citizenship and community." ... Read more