Maguire, Mark (2012) Biopower, racialization and new security technology. Social Identities, 18 (5). pp. 593-607. ISSN 1350-4630

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Abstract

From fingerprinting in colonial contexts to scientific racism, and from face recognition pioneers to contemporary multi-modal surveillance, biometric security has long been connected to processes of racialization. Using both contemporary and historical examples, this article explores the rollout of biometric security, paying especial attention to how biometrics makes use of and relies upon racialized configurations of population. The article explores these connections and teases out the precise ways in which ‘race’ and racialization connect to the securitization of individual identities. This article also opens a space for a discussion of biopower, the most popular theoretical frame through which biometric security is currently being viewed

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	biometric security; racialization; biopower; colonialism; Iraq;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology
Item ID:	5451
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2012.692896
Depositing User:	Mark Maguire
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2014 17:03
Journal or Publication Title:	Social Identities
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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