Governing through biometrics: the biopolitics of identity

By:

Ajana, Btihaj

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Palgrave Macmillan 2013 LondonDescription: ix, 238 pISBN:

9781349340477

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.483 A5G6

Summary: 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. https://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9780230321618

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad General Stacks	Non-fiction	303.483 A5G6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		199640

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Table of contents

Introduction
1. Biometrics: The Remediation of Measure
2. Homo Carded: Exception and Identity Systems
3. Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics
4. Identity Securitisation and Biometric Citizenship
5. Rethinking Community and the Political through Being-with
Conclusion

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.

https://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9780230321618

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