Bodies As Evidence : : Security, Knowledge, and Power.

• Superior document: Global Insecurities Series
• Author: Maguire, Mark.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rao, Ursula.; Zurawski, Nils.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2018.; Ã2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global Insecurities Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)

Through global case studies that explore biometric identification, border control, forensics, militarized policing, and counterterrorism, the contributors show how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed to classify, recognize, and manage human life.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Bodies as Evidence -- 1. The Truth of the Error: Making Identity and Security through Biometric Discrimination -- 2. Injured by the Border: Security Buildup, Migrant Bodies, and Emergency Response in Southern Arizona -- 3. E-Terrify: Securitized Immigration and Biometric Surveillance in the Workplace -- 4. "Dead-Bodies-at-the-Border": Distributed Evidence and Emerging Forensic Infrastructure for Identification -- 5. The Transitional Lives of Crimes against Humanity: Forensic Evidence under Changing Political Circumstances -- 6. Policing Future Crimes -- 7. "Intelligence" and "Evidence": Sovereign Authority and the Differences That Words Make -- 8. The Secrecy/Threat Matrix -- 9. What Do You Want? Evidence and Fantasy in the War on Terror -- Conclusion: Discontinuities and Diversity -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.