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B. Ajana

Governing through Biometrics


The Biopolitics of Identity
1st ed. 2013. 2013. ix, 238 S. 216 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SPRINGER PALGRAVE MACMILLAN; PALGRAVE MACMILLAN UK 2013
ISBN: 1-349-34047-2 (1349340472)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-349-34047-7 (9781349340477)

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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.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Biometrics: The Remediation of Measure 2. Homo Carded: Exception and Identity Systems 3. Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics 4. Identity Securitization and Biometric Citizenship 5. Rethinking Community and the Political Through Being-With Conclusion Notes Bibliography
"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." - Information, Communciation and Society

Btihaj Ajana is Lecturer in Culture, Digital Humanities and Creative Industries at King´s College London, UK.