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Securing Life Itself: vital systems, preparedness and counter-terrorism
| Termin |
Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013, 16.15 - 18.00 Uhr
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| Veranstaltungsart |
Vorlesung/Vortrag |
| Einrichtung |
Philosophische Fakultät I |
| Veranstaltungsort |
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung |
| Straße |
Advokatenweg 36 |
| PLZ/Ort |
06114 Halle (Saale) |
Beschreibung
Vortragender: Mark Maguire, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
One of the key governmental challenges of the contemporary moment is to facilitate the flows necessary to the global economy while controlling mobility and securing critical infrastructure. Europe is moving steadily towards a future of interoperable biometric recognition systems, e-gates, smart borders and data sharing. These moves aim to establish an area of free movement and justice, but there are profound consequences in terms of privacy, civil liberties and fundamental rights, especially for those categorized in the illegal migration-crime-terrorism nexus. Securitization is not, however, a state-led or purely repressive process: the EU is pushing for a greater share of the international security market, and everywhere we see innovations, new deployments and efforts to transform the social.
Especially since 9-11, the phantasmagoria of real or imagined terrorist threats has focused attention on ports of entry, critical infrastructures and mega-events. Preparedness demands that vital systems are protected by technologies that target and capture the vital characteristics of life itself. Commentators are discussing ‘biometric citizenship’ in an effort to track the socio-cultural consequences of new technologies and a redrawing of the social contract. However, within the critical social sciences discussions of new security technologies have thus far been a-historical, out of date or have deployed theory instead of knowledge. Using the example of airports, this paper will show how transversal assemblages of security science and technologies are transforming mobility. I describe biometric technologies that secure individual identity as a preface to exploring new systems that target abnormal behaviour by means of human emotional expression. The paper also draws loosely from ethnographic participation in counter-terrorism training.
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