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- Book Title
- When Biometrics Fail : Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
- Item Length
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- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
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- Science, Social Science
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- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Life Sciences / Biology, Criminology
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- 12 Oz
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This book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies--such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting--that have come to pervade our everyday lives. Often developed as methods to ensure "national security," these technologies are also routinely employed to regulate our personal information, our work lives, what we buy, and how we live.
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Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822351358
ISBN-13
9780822351351
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109010031
Product Key Features
Book Title
When Biometrics Fail : Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Life Sciences / Biology, Criminology
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Science, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
12 Oz
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Tk7882.B56m34 2012
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Magnet's When Biometrics Fail sounds some compelling notes of caution about placing too much reliance on unthinking machines to do human beings' work., " When Biometrics Fail offers a damning analysis of the technical problems that dog biometric identification, many of which stem from the premises on which individual difference is defined. . . . [A] useful synthesis of the activities contemporary biometric industry, providing a compelling dissection of how the idea of a science of biometrics fails, and a timely critique of an industry and its claims which exploit a misconception about the human body and use technological fetishism to posit the solution as a high tech and therefore ethically unproblematic -solution to a range of problems that have serious political and humanitarian consequences." - Hannah Drayson, Leonardo Reviews, Shoshana Amielle Magnet provides great insight into the rise of biometrics and offers a nuanced study of the complex social shaping of surveillance technologies at the intersection of the security industrial complex, cultural discourse, and code. This is a welcome addition to cultural studies and media studies scholarship as it examines representation and identity in a novel site., "Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post-9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers."- Simon A. Cole , author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, " When Biometrics Fail offers a damning analysis of the technical problems that dog biometric identification, many of which stem from the premises on which individual difference is defined. . . . [A] useful synthesis of the activities contemporary biometric industry, providing a compelling dissection of how the idea of a science of biometrics fails, and a timely critique of an industry and its claims which exploit a misconception about the human body and use technological fetishism to posit the solution as a high tech - and therefore ethically unproblematic -solution to a range of problems that have serious political and humanitarian consequences." - Hannah Drayson, Leonardo Reviews, " When Biometrics Fail is overwhelmingly persuasive, exhaustively researched, eloquently written, and full of mordant humour and bitter truth. Shoshana Amielle Magnet explains the history, science, and ideology of our contemporary biometric moment with great skill and insight. Everyone needs to read this book. An outstanding study of the informationalization of race, gender, and immigration." Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet "Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post-9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers." Simon A. Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, "The book allows the reader to ponder what sorts of assumptions about people, science, and society are at play when biometrics continues to have ongoing success, in light of its failure…. These and other interdisciplinary questions pertaining to late capitalism, identity, resistance, and the violence of identification, make up the crux of this rather accessible book… [I]nsightful in terms of its crisscrossing empirical analysis…. [I]t will be of great interest to scholars and nonscholars alike who are interested in identity, gender, and race relations, as well as the impact of technology on strategies of political resistance and moral regulation." - Bianca Baggiarini, Canadian Review of Sociology, "Magnet's When Biometrics Fail sounds some compelling notes of caution about placing too much reliance on unthinking machines to do human beings' work." - Rick Docksai, World Future Review, "Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post-9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers."-- Simon A. Cole , author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, "Throughout the book, Magnet ably shifts the reader's perception and understanding of biometric failures-- wide-ranging and 'endemic to their technological functioning'. Stressing the limitations of non-scientific language to describe biometric failures, Magnet uses many examples to effectively question the objectivity of the technology. Most intriguing is how the three case studies point out the irony of privatisation of security and the over-reliance of these very same biometric companies on state governments for their profitability." , "The book allows the reader to ponder what sorts of assumptions about people, science, and society are at play when biometrics continues to have ongoing success, in light of its failure.... These and other interdisciplinary questions pertaining to late capitalism, identity, resistance, and the violence of identification, make up the crux of this rather accessible book... [I]nsightful in terms of its crisscrossing empirical analysis.... [I]t will be of great interest to scholars and nonscholars alike who are interested in identity, gender, and race relations, as well as the impact of technology on strategies of political resistance and moral regulation." - Bianca Baggiarini, Canadian Review of Sociology, "Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers."- Simon A. Cole , author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, "Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disabilities, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers."- Simon A. Cole , author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, "Taking her cue from science and technology studies' methods and theories, where definitions of 'success' in connection with technological developments are long-standing topics of interest . . ., Magnet focuses on its counterpart, the issue of technological failure. In view of the fact that their often substandard performance seldom seems to play a role in government decisions on whether to opt for the large-scale implementation of biometrics (eg, the US-Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system, or Europe's use of biometric passports), exposing whole populations to the consequences of their failure, these are timely questions. . . . [F]or those interested in the technology, its social implications and use in a number of US contexts, the details of Magnet's investigations are very much worth reading." - Irma van der Ploeg, Times Higher Education Supplement, Magnet's theoretical reliance on corporeal fetishism while attending to failures, leads her to significant conclusions: first, the technology falsely imagines bodies as stable entities, and second, it intensifies inequalities. Of particular interest to sociologists is her focus, especially in the welfare chapter, on the human costs of the technologies. . . . The book is well organized and the archival material clearly presented. The introduction sets up the interesting question of how biometric technology codifies inequality, and subsequent chapters provide a convincing argument., " When Biometrics Fail is overwhelmingly persuasive, exhaustively researched, eloquently written, and full of mordant humor and bitter truth. Shoshana Amielle Magnet explains the history, science, and ideology of our contemporary biometric moment with great skill and insight. Everyone needs to read this book. An outstanding study of the informationalization of race, gender, and immigration."- Lisa Nakamura , author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, " When Biometrics Fail is overwhelmingly persuasive, exhaustively researched, eloquently written, and full of mordant humor and bitter truth. Shoshana Amielle Magnet explains the history, science, and ideology of our contemporary biometric moment with great skill and insight. Everyone needs to read this book. An outstanding study of the informationalization of race, gender, and immigration."-- Lisa Nakamura , author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, When Biometrics Fail succeeds in informing the audience about what underlies this evolving technology and its role in assigning identities to human beings. The author, Shoshana Amielle Magnet, has delicately dealt with the issue of science encroaching upon the territory of human rights and classifying people on the basis of race, gender and ethnicity., "Overall, Magnet's critique of biometric discourse and technologies is penetrating, relentless and often devastating. This is an enlightening, exquisitely critical book that should be required reading as much for neo-liberal policy-makers considering quick-fix technological solutions to systemic social and crime control problems as for students and scholars of criminology." - Randy K. Lippert, Theoretical Criminology
Table of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Imagining Biometric Security 1 1. Biometric Failure 19 2. I-Tech and the Beginnings of Biometrics 51 3. Criminalizing Poverty: Adding Biometrics to Welfare 69 4. Biometrics at the Border 91 5. Representing Biometrics 127 Conclusion. Biometric Failure and Beyond 149 Appendix 159 Notes 165 Bibliography 171 Index 199
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2011-021954
Dewey Decimal
570.1/5195
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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