Format:
1 online resource (204 pages)
ISBN:
9780816666546
Content:
Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. It broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, and migration and establishes the airport as critical to the study of politics and global life.Contributors: Peter Adey, Colin J. Bennett, Gillian Fuller, Francisco R. Klauser, Gallya Lahav, David Lyon, Benjamin J. Muller, Valérie November, Jean Ruegg.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Airport Assemblage -- 1. The Global Airport: Managing Space, Speed, and Security -- 2. Filtering Flows, Friends, and Foes: Global Surveillance -- 3. Unsafe at Any Altitude: The Comparative Politics of No-Fly Lists in the United States and Canada -- 4. Mobility and Border Security: The U.S. Aviation System, the State, and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships -- 5. Airport Surveillance between Public and Private Interests: CCTV at Geneva International Airport -- 6. Travelers, Borders, Dangers: Locating the Political at the Biometric Border -- 7. Mobilities and Modulations: The Airport as a Difference Machine -- 8. Welcome to Windows 2.1: Motion Aesthetics at the Airport -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816650149
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Politics at the airport Minneapolis [u.a.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN 0816650144
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816650152
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816650149
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816650156
Additional Edition:
Print version Politics at the Airport
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Flughafen
;
Sicherheitsmaßnahme
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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