Securing the political imagination: Popular culture, the security dispositif and the biometric state

Security Dialogue

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 199-220

  Muller, Benjamin J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Biopolitics; Culture; Dispositif; Political imagination; Technologies of risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 41049106532     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010608088775     Document Type: Article

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