Bodies As Evidence

Mark Maguire is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University.Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig.Nils Zurawski is Senior Researcher and Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg.Maguire and Zurawski are coeditors of The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counterterrorism, and Border Control. Rao is author of News as Culture: Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions.

• Introduction: Bodies as Evidence / Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao  11. The Truth of the Error: Making Identity and Security through Biometric Discrimination / Elida Jacobsen and Ursula Rao  242. Injured by the Border: Security Buildup, Migrant Bodies, and Emergency Response in Southern Arizona / Ieva Jusionyte  433. E-Terrify: Securitized Immigration and Biometric Surveillance in the Workplace / Daniel M. Goldstein and Carolina Alonso-Bejarano  624. "Dead-Bodies-at-the-Border": Distributed Evidence and Emerging Forensic Infrastructure for Identificiation / Amade M'charek  895. The Transitional Lives of Crimes against Humanity: Forensic Evidence under Changing Political Circumstances / Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Francisco J. FerrÁndiz  1106. Policing Future Crimes / Mark Maguire  1377. "Intelligence" and "Evidence": Sovereign Authority and the Differences that Words Make / Gregory Feldman  1598. The Secrecy/Threat Matrix / Joseph P. Masco  1759. What Do Your Want? Evidence and Fantasy in the War on Terror / Joseba Zulaika  201Conclusion: Discontinuities and Diversity / Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao  228Contributors  237Index  241

"The volume certainly highlights what a conceptual anthropological engagement with 'security,' as well as with 'evidence' means. The volume will be worth reading for scholars in- and out-side anthropology interested in the production of knowledge, technologies, security and governmentality."- Monika Weissensteiner (Surveillance Studies) “Bodies as Evidence poses a bold premise. It argues that not only is evidence beholden to social and political influences but that the glorification of evidence has demonstrable, and often dangerous, side effects on already marginalized communities. Its exemplary use of ethnographic and reflexive methodologies illustrates the vast complexity of seemingly objective data, and the practical limitations of collecting and employing it.”- Sarah Maya Rosen (Journal of International & Global Studies) “This timely book will be of interest to political, legal, and social geographers concerned with the embodied and spatial implications of shifting laws and borders, and demands for evidence by and against the state.”- Emily C. Kaufman (Social & Cultural Geography)