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-a-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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