Anthropology of security : : perspectives from the frontline of policing, counter-terrorism and border control / / edited by Mark Maguire, Catarina Frois and Nils Zurawski.
In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-citizens in profound ways. The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification syste...
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| Superior document: | Anthropology, Culture and Society |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : Pluto Press,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""List of Figures ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Series Preface ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1. Sarkosy and Roma: Performaing Securitisation, Marion Demossier ""; ""2. Video-surveillance and the Political Use of Discretionary Power in the Name of Security and Defence, Catarina Frois ""; ""3. Location, Isolation and Disempowerment: The Swift Proliferation of Security Discourse among Policy Professionals, Greg Feldman ""; ""4. Compensating (In)Security: Anthropological Perspectives on Internal Security, Alexandra Schwell ""
- ""5. Petty States of Exception: The Contemporary Policing of the Urban Poor, Didier Fassin """"6. Counter-terrorism in European Airports, Mark Maguire""; ""7. Whose Security? The Deportation of Foreign-national Offenders from the UK, Ines Hasselberg ""; ""8. Grey Zones of Illegality: Inhuman Conditions in Receiving Irregular Migrants in Greece, Jutta Lauth Bacas ""; ""Conclusions ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Contributors ""; ""Index ""