Bodies as Evidence : Security, Knowledge, and Power /
From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- The truth of the error: making identity and security through biometric discrimination / Elida K.U. Jacobsen and Ursula Rao
- Injured by the border: security buildup, migrant bodies, and emergency response in southern Arizona / Ieva Jusionyte
- E-terrify: securitized immigration and biometric surveillance in the workplace / Daniel M. Goldstein and Carolina Alonso-Bejarano
- "Dead-bodies-at-the-border": distributed evidence and emerging forensic infrastructure for identification / Amade M'charek,
- The transitional lives of crimes against humanity: forensic evidence under changing political circumstances / Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Francisco J. Ferrándiz
- Policing future crimes / Mark Maguire
- "Intelligence" and "evidence": sovereign authority and the differences that words make / Gregory Feldman
- The secrecy/threat matrix / Joseph P. Masco
- What do you want?: evidence and fantasy in the war on terror / Joseba Zulaika
- Conclusion: discontinuities and diversity / Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao.