The transparent traveler : the performance and culture of airport security / Rachel Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Rachel, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Transportation Security Administration.

United States.

Airports--Security measures--United States.

Airports.

Aeronautics, Commercial--Security measures--United States.

Aeronautics, Commercial.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>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.</div>

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking asymmetrical transparency: risk management, the aesthetics of transparency, and the global politics of mobility

The art of performing consumer and suspect : transparency chic as a model of privileged, securitized mobility

Opacity effects : the performance and documentation of terrorist embodiment

Transparency effects : the implementation of full-body and biometric scanners at US airports

How to perform voluntary transparency more efficiently : airport security pedagogy in the post-9/11 era

Performing involuntary transparency : the TSA's turn to behavior detection

Conclusion. transparency beyond US airports : international airports, "flying" checkpoints, controlled-tone zones, and lateral behavior detection.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822375296

082237529X

OCLC:

1140779966