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State Violence and the Execution of Law
Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones
Series: Law and the Postcolonial
State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which...
Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Biometrics
Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns...
Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge