Politics at the Airport

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in paper. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Airport Assemblage / Mark B. Salter -- 1. The Global Airport: Managing Space, Speed, and Security / Mark B. Salter -- 2. Filtering Flows, Friends, and Foes: Global Surveillance / David Lyon -- 3. Unsafe at Any Altitude: The Comparative Politics of No-Fly Lists in the United States and Canada / Colin J. Bennett -- 4. Mobility and Border Security: The U. S. Aviation System, the State, and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships / Gallya Lahav -- 5. Airport Surveillance between Public and Private Interests: CCTV at Geneva International Airport / Francisco R. Klauser, Jean Ruegg, Valerie November -- 6. Travelers, Borders, Dangers: Locating the Political at the Biometric Border / Benjamin J. Muller -- 7. Mobilities and Modulations: The Airport as a Difference Machine / Peter Adey -- 8. Welcome to Windows 2.1: Motion Aesthetics at the Airport / Gillian Fuller -- Contributors -- Index. Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 11/14/2008 pg. 22 (EAN 9780816650156, Paperback) Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 118 (EAN 9780816650156, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Salter, Mark B Mark B. Salter is Assistant Professor at The American University in Cairo. Contributor Bio:  Adey, Peter Peter Adey is reader in Cultural Geography at Keele University, UK. Contributor Bio:  Bennett, Colin J Colin Bennett is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of "The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2008) and coauthor (with Charles Raab) of "The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective" (updated paperback edition, MIT Press, 2006). Contributor Bio:  Lahav, Gallya Gallya Lahav is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at New York University. Contributor Bio:  Lyon, David Rabbi David Lyon is an innovative spiritual leader and educator recognized for making ancient teachings accessible in contemporary spiritual life. He is author of God of Me: Imagining God throughout Your Lifetime. Senior rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, Texas, he is vice chair of the Board of the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center and an active participant in interfaith activities. Rabbi David Lyon is available to speak on the following topics: Imagining God throughout Your LifeOMG: Finding God in Jewish TextsNew Ways to Welcome God into Your FamilyWhen Life Hurts, God AnswersGod of Me, God of YouClick here to contact the author.