Governing through biometrics [electronic resource] : the biopolitics of identity / by Btihaj Ajana.
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 verifica...
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.