ISBN:
9781137290755
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1137290757
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9780230321618
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 238 S.
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Ajana, Btihaj Governing through biometrics
Parallel Title:
Print version Governing through Biometrics : The Biopolitics of Identity
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Biometric identification Social aspects
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Biometric identification Moral and ethical aspects
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Biometric identification Political aspects
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Electronic books
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Biometrie
;
Datenverwaltung
;
Datenaustausch
;
Ethik
Abstract:
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. From border control and asylum regulation to the management of social services and medical records, various fields are increasingly deploying biometric systems as a means of identity verification and authentication. The scope and nature of these systems are raising a host of concerns regarding the intensification of surveillance practices and the reduction of identity to a series of bio-data and algorithms. By analysing biometric systems as a biopolitical practice within the domain of borders, immigration and citizenship management, this book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for security and governance purposes. It draws on a number of critical theories, philosophies and empirical examples, offering a multi-level and timely analysis of the socio-political and ethical implications of biometric identity systems
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9780230321618
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1057/9781137290755
URN:
10.1057/9781137290755
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