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Introduction : exploring spaces of security / Mark Maguire and Setha Low -- Security urbanism and the counterterror state in Kenya / Zolt n Glck -- Comparative surveillance regimes : a preliminary essay / Katherine Verdery -- Borderization and public security in Argentina / Alejandro Grimson and Br¡gida Renoldi -- From panopticon to pansonic : the architecture of fear in mega-events / Carmen Rial -- Securing security : recursive security assemblages in South Africa / Thomas G. Kirsch -- Domesticating security : gated communities and cooperative apartment buildings in New York City and Long Island, New York / Setha Low -- Domesticating spaces of security in Israel / Nurit Bird-David and Matan Shapiro -- The political economy and political aesthetics of military maps / Catherine Lutz -- Enigmatic presence : satellites and the vertical spatialities of security / Stephen Graham -- Re-spatializing social security in India / Ursula Rao

The truth of the error: making identity and security through biometric discrimination / Elida Jacobsen and Ursula Rao -- Injured by the border: security buildup, migrant bodies, and emergency response in southern Arizona / Ieva Jusionyte -- E-terrify: securitized immigration and biometric surveillance in the workplace / Daniel M. Goldstein & Carolina Alonso-Bejarano -- "Dead-bodies-at-the-border": distributed evidence and emerging forensic infrastructure for identification / Amade M'charek, -- The transitional lives of crimes against humanity: forensic evidence under changing political circumstances / Antonius C.G.M. Robben & Francisco J. Ferrándiz -- Policing future crimes / Mark Maguire -- "Intelligence" and "evidence": sovereign authority and the differences that words make / Gregory Feldman -- The secrecy/threat matrix / Joseph P. Masco -- What do you want?: evidence and fantasy in the war on terror / Joseba Zulaika -- Conclusion: discontinuities and diversity / Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao

From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as Evidence reveal how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed to classify, recognize, and manage human life. Through global case studies that explore biometric identification, border control, forensics, predictive policing, and counterterrorism, the contributors show how security discourses and practices that target the body contribute to new configurations of knowledge and power. At the same time, margins of error, unreliable technologies, and a growing suspicion of scientific evidence in a "post-truth" era contribute to growing insecurity, especially among marginalized populations.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Sarkosy and Roma: Performaing Securitisation, Marion Demossier -- 2. Video-surveillance and the Political Use of Discretionary Power in the Name of Security and Defence, Catarina Frois -- 3. Location, Isolation and Disempowerment: The Swift Proliferation of Security Discourse among Policy Professionals, Greg Feldman -- 4. Compensating (In)Security: Anthropological Perspectives on Internal Security, Alexandra Schwell -- 5. Petty States of Exception: The Contemporary Policing of the Urban Poor, Didier Fassin -- 6. Counter-terrorism in European Airports, Mark Maguire -- 7. Whose Security? The Deportation of Foreign-national Offenders from the UK, Ines Hasselberg -- 8. Grey Zones of Illegality: Inhuman Conditions in Receiving Irregular Migrants in Greece, Jutta Lauth Bacas -- Conclusions -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.

In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-citizens in profound ways. The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification systems, CCTV and quasi-military techniques to police migrants and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This is the first collection of anthropological studies of security with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on Europe. The Anthropology of Security draws together studies on the lived experiences of security and policing from the perspective of those most affected in their everyday lives. The anthropological perspectives in this volume stretch from the frontlines of policing and counter-terrorism to border control