Hall The Transparent Traveler

The Performance and Culture of Airport Security
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7529-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Rachel Hall characterizes post-9/11 airport security practices as operating under the "aesthetics of transparency," which requires passengers to perform innocence and be open to inspection—those who cannot are deemed opaque and presumed to be a threat. Travelers are no longer innocent until proven guilty; they are guilty until proven transparent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. Rethinking Asymmetrical Transparency: Risk Management, the Aesthetics of Transparency, and the Global Politics of Mobility 1

1. The Art of Performing Consumer and Suspect: Transparency Chic as a Model of Privileged, Securitized Modernity 25

2. Opacity Effects: The Performance and Documentation of Terrorist Embodiment 57

3. Transparency Effects: The Implementation of Full-Body and Biometic Scanners at US Airports 77

4. How to Perform Voluntary Transparency More Efficiently: Airport Security Pedagogy in the Post-9/11 Era 109

5. Performing Involuntary Transparency: The TSA's Turn to Behavior Detection 131

Conclusion. Transparency Beyond US Airports: International Airports, "Flying" Checkpoints, Controlled-Tone Zones, and Lateral Behavior Detection 157

Notes 179

Bibliography 205

Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Hall is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University, and the author of Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture.