Politics at the airport / Mark B. Salter, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salter, Mark B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International airports--Security measures.

International airports.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Airport assemblage / Mark B. Salter

The global airport : managing space, speed, and security / Mark B. Salter

Filtering flows, friends, and foes : global surveillance / David Lyon

Unsafe at any altitude : the comparative politics of no-fly lists in the United States and Canada / Colin J. Bennett

Mobility and border security : the U.S. aviation system, the state, and the rise of public-private partnerships / Gallya Lahav

Airport surveillance between public and private interests : CCTV at Geneva International Airport / Francisco R. Klauser, Jean Ruegg, and Valerie November

Travelers, borders, dangers : locating the political at the biometric border / Benjamin J. Muller

Mobilities and modulations : the airport as a difference machine / Peter Adey

Welcome to windows 2.1 : motion aesthetics at the airport / Gillian Fuller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816666546

0816666547

OCLC:

321075572