TY  - BOOK
ED  - Maguire, Mark
ED  - Rao, Ursula
ED  - Zurawski, Nils
AB  - From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as Evidence reveal how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed to classify, recognize, and manage human life. Through global case studies that explore biometric identification, border control, forensics, predictive policing, and counterterrorism, the contributors show how security discourses and practices that target the body contribute to new configurations of knowledge and power. At the same time, margins of error, unreliable technologies, and a growing suspicion of scientific evidence in a “post-truth” era contribute to growing insecurity, especially among marginalized populations.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004322
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100537153
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Body
KW  - Evidence
KW  - Anthropology of Security
KW  - Surveillance
KW  - Forensic Anthropology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/118a9c02-034a-4a7a-b051-29c8da165850/1004322.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25766
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham, NC
PY  - 2018-11-01
SN  - 9781478004301
TI  - Bodies as Evidence : Security, Knowledge, and Power
ER  - 
