... The introduction provides a performance-based analysis of airport security. The aesthetics of transparency is used to moralize biopolitical distinctions drawn between populations presumed capable of reflexive governance and those excluded from the project of risk management. In the post-9/11 era...

... attributions of responsibility for the 2,001 Cypriots—civilians and combatants—who went missing during the 1960s–70s. First, I appraise suspicions of secrecy surrounding the forensic investigations, and the discourse of transparency with which those suspicions are aligned. Second, I examine juridical...

...Means into Ends<subtitle>Neoliberal Transparency and Its Shadows</subtitle> ...

... Post-9/11 security cultures cultivate transparency chic, or the artful performance of consumer and suspect. The chapter analyzes the Transportation Security Administration’s policies and procedures for monitoring the things that passengers carry onto planes. The airport is akin to a maximum...

... patterns or outlines of human forms and eventually as a generic image of the human form. Biometric capture offers foreign visitors to the US the opportunity to become transparent in the sense of the trusted traveler. The chapter includes an overview of current trusted traveler programs. It analyzes a State...

... Transportation security pedagogy addresses people’s capacities to be trained to perform voluntary transparency, unless limited by a medical condition or disability. This chapter analyzes two campaigns designed to train the traveling public in the art of efficient submission to post-9/11 security...

... environment. The demand for affective transparency within airports potentially poses a threat to public participation beyond, insofar as it isolates members of the public, each of whom may be caught in a private experience of the terror of suspicion, and breeds conformity via the pressure to perform...

... encountered push back from international institutions and other national security programs. It defines deterritorialized checkpoints, or geographically dispersed and politically diverse contexts in which security officials and vigilantes employ the aesthetics of transparency. The aesthetics of transparency...

...To Be Transparent<subtitle>Seeing Directions and Connections in Black Lesbian Film</subtitle> ...