Politics at the Airport

Politics at the Airport

ISBN-10:
0816650152
ISBN-13:
9780816650156
Pub. Date:
07/29/2008
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10:
0816650152
ISBN-13:
9780816650156
Pub. Date:
07/29/2008
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Politics at the Airport

Politics at the Airport

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Overview

Few sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the international airport. Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies-from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to "no-fly lists" and the privatization of border control-now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers. This provocative volume broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, bureaucracy, and migration while establishing the airport as critical to the study of politics and global life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780816650156
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 07/29/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Peter Adey is professor of human geography in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University of London.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: Airport Assemblage   Mark B. Salter     ix
The Global Airport: Managing Space, Speed, and Security   Mark B. Salter     1
Filtering Flows, Friends, and Foes: Global Surveillance   David Lyon     29
Unsafe at Any Altitude: The Comparative Politics of No-Fly Lists in the United States and Canada   Colin J. Bennett     51
Mobility and Border Security: The U.S. Aviation System, the State, and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships   Gallya Lahav     77
Airport Surveillance between Public and Private Interests: CCTV at Geneva International Airport   Francisco R. Klauser   Jean Ruegg   Valerie November     105
Travelers, Borders, Dangers: Locating the Political at the Biometric Border   Benjamin J. Muller     127
Mobilities and Modulations: The Airport as a Difference Machine   Peter Adey     145
Welcome to Windows 2.1: Motion Aesthetics at the Airport   Gillian Fuller     161
Contributors     175
Index     177
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