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Biopolitical Spaces of Security in the Global War on Terror
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The article analyzes the spaces of security produced by the American administration after 9/11 through the lenses of the concept of biopolitics, as delivered by French philosopher Michel Foucault. The main aim of this article is to reveal interconnections between the population-centric notion of biopolitcs, practices of liberal governmentality and security per se. As a tangible example of that linkage there will be introduced the process of borders enhancement, which operating through the biometric technologies of risk management produces the so-called Smart Borders. In the biopolitical context, the result of Smart Borders was the reduction of negative elements in the circulation of goods in the security space.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/k.2015.22.2.55
Date of publication: 2016-06-30 20:08:59
Date of submission: 2015-11-27 20:04:31
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