From Territorial Space to Networks: A Foucaldian Approach to the Implementation of Biometry

Abstract

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Security/Mobility : Politics of Movement

“…In line with John Torpey's ( 2000 ) compelling analysis of how passports and identifi cation documents are to be viewed as the products of elaborate bureaucracies devoted to identifying individuals, regulating and localising them, I would argue that within critical security studies there are three discernible arenas that address the issue of mobility. The fi rst is an emphasis on the policing and governance of mobility Bonditti 2004 ;Scherrer et al 2010 ). Here the notion of mobility is largely seen as a by-product of an analysis of the rationale and practices of a rather successful monopolisation of the legitimate means of movement by states and their bureaucracies (police, customs, and diplomacy).…”

The Imaginary of Borders: From a Coloring Book to Cézanne's Paintings1

“…This change is partly rooted in novel technologies, however, at the core of it is a re‐mapping of threats. Whereas according to Westphalian logic security practices were biased to identify threats with states, today the referents of threats are shifting away from territorial entities toward individuals (Bonditti :478). This entails constant vigilance as the enemy can always be within, necessitating the creation of borders of safe and dangerous in various aspects of daily life (Amoore :338).…”

Governing Diasporas

“…Among other critical scholarship in IR, c.a.s.e collective, and especially the contributions of the “Paris school” of security studies have developed useful theoretical insights based on the fruitful crossing of the genealogical method of Michel Foucault with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 18 . Researchers associated with the journal Cultures&Conflits have followed Foucault’s intellectual project of moving away from the state as a starting point for the conceptualization of power, focusing instead on the various ways through which “the state” as “a practice” has “plugged” itself on different practices of power that operate in society (Bonditti 2004; Foucault 2004:282; Bigo 2006, 2008). These problematizations of the question of “how to govern” are multiple and in constant conflict, and ultimately determine the way in which power operates in different locations in society (Foucault 2004:6).…”