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Offers an innovative analytical approach as a tool for cross-country comparison to make explicit the rather invisible bordering practices along transnationally expansive biometric technologies.
Provides a panorama on cross-country dynamics, as well as the different countries’ situations by demonstrating how the particularities of national policy regulations and judicial traditions, as well as technological infrastructures and techno-political cultural repertoires, either enforce, complement or counter the bio-bordering dynamics of the EU.
Examines how national autonomy and sovereignty is claimed, negotiated and suspended not only through legal and political bordering processes, but also through scientific and technical bordering practices that correspond with techno-political cultures and manifest specific regimes for biological data retention and exchange.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Borders do much more than delineate states, territories and populations. By exploring the development of DNA databases in Europe, this adventurous book carefully constructs the concept of bio-bordering. This book convincingly adds a next chapter to our understanding of borders and the connections and disconnections they make between political bodies, human bodies and technologies.” (Prof Dr Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy)
“This book marks a significant development of a field of study that has emerged since the end of last century. Building upon prior studies of bordering and surveillance, this book marks a new milestone, providing an important new lens for understanding forensic genetics and trans-national law enforcement—which has so far remained relatively under-reported, and certainly under-theorised.” (Dr Carole McCartney, Professor of Law & Criminal Justice, Northumbria University)
Authors and Affiliations
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Communication and Society Research Center (CECS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Nina Amelung, Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado
About the authors
Rafaela Granja, PhD, University of Minho, is a sociologist working in the project EXCHANGE. Her current research explores the transnational exchange of DNA data and controversies associated with scientific and technological innovations in the forensic field. Her previous work has focused on reconfigurations of family relationships inside and outside prisons.
Helena Machado, Full Professor of Sociology, University of Minho, is a transdisciplinary researcher, engaging the social studies of science, bioethics, and sociological and criminological perspectives to explore how genetics creates acute challenges to citizenship, democracy and social control in contemporary societies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modes of Bio-Bordering
Book Subtitle: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe
Authors: Nina Amelung, Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8183-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8182-3Published: 31 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8185-4Published: 01 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8183-0Published: 30 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 151
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general