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'A valuable contribution to the work being done, from different perspectives, on the theory of the state and the protection of fundamental rights.' - The International Spectator, Volume 46, Issue 1, 2011, 154
‘This book makes an important contribution by raising new questions in the often inadequately nuanced debate about contemporary states’ deployment of biometric technology... The book is undoubtedly a timely and most relevant contribution to a field of study that to some extent has been characterised by a lack of critical engagement with underlying issues such as discursive conditions, a lack of engagement with broader implications for bodies being targeted by this technology and the ‘risk regime’ within which biometric technologies are being constituted as rational, operative and superior solutions.’ - By Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), in e-Internatioanl Relations, September 2012
This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life.
In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has accelerated, giving rise to the term 'biometric state'. This book explores how these ‘virtual borders’ are created and the effect they have upon the politics of citizenship and immigration, especially how they contribute to the treatment of citizens as suspects. Finally and most importantly, this text argues that the rationale of 'governing through risk' facilitates pre-emptory logics, a negligent attitude towards 'false positives', and an overall proliferation of borders and ubiquitous risk, which becomes integral to contemporary everyday life, far beyond the confined politics of national borders and frontiers.
By focusing on specific sites, such as virtual borders in airports, trusted traveller programs like the NEXUS program and those delivered by airlines and supported by governmental authorities (TSA and CATSA respectively), this book raises critical questions about the emerging biometric state and its commitment and constitution vis-à-vis technology of ‘governing through risk’.
This book will be of interest to students of biopolitics, critical security, surveillance studies and International Relations in general.
Benjamin J. Muller is assistant professor in International Relations at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. He completed his PhD in the School of Politics and International Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2005.
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