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Politics at the Airport

Adey, Peter(Contributions by)Bennett, Colin J.(Contributions by)Fuller, Gillian(Contributions by)Salter, Mark B.(Edited by)
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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.

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Product Details
0816650144 / 9780816650149
Hardback
363.124
29/08/2008
United States
240 pages
152 x 229 mm