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(Dis)qualified bodies: securitization, citizenship and ‘identity management’
- Source :
- Citizenship Studies. 8:279-294
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2004.
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Abstract
- This article attempts to think citizenship politics in the international security context of a post‐September 11th world. Considering specifically the introduction of biometric technologies, the article reveals the extent to which contemporary citizenship is securitized as a part of the wider post‐September 11th ‘securitization of the inside’. This securitization contributes directly to the intensification of conventional citizenship practice, as biometric technologies are employed to conceal and advance the heightened exclusionary and restrictive practices of contemporary securitized citizenship. The intensified restriction and preservation of particular rights and entitlements, vis‐a‐vis the application of biometric technologies, serves both private and public concerns over ‘securing identity’. This overall move, and the subsequent challenges to conventional notions of citizenship politics and agency, is referred to here as ‘identity management’. To then ask ‘What's left of citizenship?’ sheds light on ...
- Subjects :
- media_common.quotation_subject
Geography, Planning and Development
Identity (social science)
Context (language use)
Identity management
Politics
Law
Political Science and International Relations
Agency (sociology)
International security
Securitization
Sociology
Citizenship
Law and economics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14693593 and 13621025
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Citizenship Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d717b754823cbada37f59a75641462dd