Politics at the Airport

Politics at the Airport

Mark B. Salter, editor
Table of Contents

$20.00 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5015-6

$60.00 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5014-9

Establishes the airport as a crucial site in the rise of the surveillance state.

Few sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the international airport.

Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies—from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to “no-fly lists” and the privatization of border control—now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers.

This provocative volume broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, bureaucracy, and migration while establishing 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.

Mark B. Salter is associate professor of political science at the University of Ottawa.

240 pages | 6 x 9 | 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Airport Assemblage
Mark B. Salter

1. The Global Airport: Managing Space, Speed, and Security
Mark B. Salter

2. Filtering Flows, Friends, and Foes: Global Surveillance
David Lyon

3. Unsafe at Any Altitude: The Comparative Politics of No-Fly Lists in the United States and Canada
Colin J. Bennett

4. Mobility and Border Security: The U.S. Aviation System, the State, and the Rise of Public–Private Partnerships
Gallya Lahav

5. Airport Surveillance between Public and Private Interests: CCTV at Geneva International Airport
Francisco R. Klauser, Jean Ruegg, and Valérie November

6. Travelers, Borders, Dangers: Locating the Political at the Biometric Border
Benjamin J. Muller

7. Mobilities and Modulations: The Airport as a Difference Machine
Peter Adey

8. Welcome to Windows 2.1: Motion Aesthetics at the Airport
Gillian Fuller

Contributors
Index



Politics at the Airport Mark B. Salter, editor Table of Contents		$20.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5015-6 $60.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5014-9
Establishes the airport as a crucial site in the rise of the surveillance state. Few sites are more symbolic of both the opportunities and vulnerabilities of contemporary globalization than the international airport. Politics at the Airport brings together leading scholars to examine how airports both shape and are shaped by current political, social, and economic conditions. Focusing on the ways that airports have become securitized, the essays address a wide range of practices and technologies—from architecture, biometric identification, and CCTV systems to “no-fly lists” and the privatization of border control—now being deployed to frame the social sorting of safe and potentially dangerous travelers. This provocative volume broadens our understanding of the connections among power, space, bureaucracy, and migration while establishing 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. Mark B. Salter is associate professor of political science at the University of Ottawa. 240 pages \| 6 x 9 \| 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Airport Assemblage Mark B. Salter 1. The Global Airport: Managing Space, Speed, and Security Mark B. Salter 2. Filtering Flows, Friends, and Foes: Global Surveillance David Lyon 3. Unsafe at Any Altitude: The Comparative Politics of No-Fly Lists in the United States and Canada Colin J. Bennett 4. Mobility and Border Security: The U.S. Aviation System, the State, and the Rise of Public–Private Partnerships Gallya Lahav 5. Airport Surveillance between Public and Private Interests: CCTV at Geneva International Airport Francisco R. Klauser, Jean Ruegg, and Valérie November 6. Travelers, Borders, Dangers: Locating the Political at the Biometric Border Benjamin J. Muller 7. Mobilities and Modulations: The Airport as a Difference Machine Peter Adey 8. Welcome to Windows 2.1: Motion Aesthetics at the Airport Gillian Fuller Contributors Index