The Social Life of Biometrics

Author:   George C Grinnell
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9781978809062


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 May 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Paperback
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The Social Life of Biometrics


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"In The Social Life of Biometrics, biometrics is loosely defined as a discrete technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity. Author George Grinnell considers the social and cultural life of biometrics by examining what it is asked to do, imagined to do, and its intended and unintended effects. As a human-focused account of technology, the book contends that biometrics needs to be understood as a mode of thought that informs how we live and understand one another; it is not simply a neutral technology of identification. Placing our biometric present in historical and cultural perspective, The Social Life of Biometrics examines a range of human experiences of biometrics. It features individual stories from locations as diverse as Turkey, Canada, Qatar, Six Nations territory in New York State, Iraq, the skies above New York City, a university campus and Nairobi to give cultural accounts of identification and look at the ongoing legacies of our biometric ambitions. It ends by considering the ethics surrounding biometrics and human identity, migration, movement, strangers, borders, and the nature of the body and its coherence. How has biometric thought structured ideas about borders, race, covered faces, migration, territory, citizenship, and international responsibility? What might happen if identity was less defined by the question of ""who's there?"" and much more by the question ""how do you live?"""

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Author:   George C Grinnell
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.003kg
ISBN:  

9781978809062


ISBN 10:   1978809069
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 May 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1          Biometric Encounters 2          The Social Life of Biometrics 3          The Domains of Biometric Thought 4          On Method 5          A Genealogy of Biometrics 6          Thinking in the Wake of Biometric Thought Acknowledgments Bibliography About the Author  

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The Social Life of Biometrics is an absolutely indispensable guide to understanding the construction of political identity--whose bodies belong and whose bodies are to be prohibited and disavowed-- in an era marked by mean-spirited, panic anxiety over security, national borders and the restless migration of nomadic populations. --Arthur Kroker author of Body Drift and Exits to the Posthuman Future


Author Information

GEORGE C. GRINNELL is an associate professor of English and Cultural studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

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