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  • Security, Risk and the Biometric State

    Governing Borders and Bodies

    Series series PRIO New Security Studies
    This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life.In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has accelerated, giving rise to the term 'biometric state'. This book explores how these ‘virtual borders’ ... Read more

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  • Architectures of Security

    Design, Control, Mobility

    Series series Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
    Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a “ferocious” architecture-an architecture, aesthetic, or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism. The text provides examples from urban spaces in both the ... Read more

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  • Seemed Like a Good Idea

    Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation

    Consumers, public officials, and even managers of health care and insurance are unhappy about care quality, access, and costs. This book shows that is because efforts to do something about these problems often rely on hope or conjecture, not rigorous evidence of effectiveness. In this book, experts in the field separate the speculative from the proven with regard to how care is rendered, how ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Hizballah

    Legitimacy, Authority, Violence

    International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states. However, groups like Hizballah clearly challenge this framing of global politics through its continued ability to exercise violence in the regional arena. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of state-society relations in Lebanon, this book presents a lucid ... Read more

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  • Musical Echoes

    South African Women Thinking in Jazz

    Series series Refiguring American music
    Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of Billie Holiday. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for ... Read more

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  • Arab Spring: The Making of the New Middle East

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  • Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

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