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Governing through Biometrics This page intentionally left blank Governing through Biometrics The Biopolitics of Identity Btihaj Ajana Lecturer,Culture,DigitalHumanitiesandCreativeIndustries, King’sCollegeLondon,UK ©BtihajAjana2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-32161-8 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2013by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-34047-7 ISBN 978-1-137-29075-5 (eBook) DOI10.1057/9781137290755 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. Who are you? Tu quis es. That is an abyssal question. (Schmitt, 1950) This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 Biometrics:TheRemediationofMeasure 21 2 HomoCarded:ExceptionandIdentitySystems 47 3 RecombinantIdentities:BiometricsandNarrativeBioethics 79 4 IdentitySecuritisationandBiometricCitizenship 108 5 RethinkingCommunityandthePoliticalthrough Being-with 160 Conclusion 189 Notes 199 Bibliography 211 Index 224 vii Acknowledgements In the course of developing this work, I have benefited greatly from the support and guidance of many people in ways that are hard to acknowledge appropriately here. Mostly, I would like to express my appreciation and gratitude to Nikolas Rose for his mentoring, intellec- tualsupportandgenerosityandtotheresearchcommunityattheBIOS Centrefortheirassistanceandencouragement.Thanksinparticularto Joelle Abi-Rached, Megan Clinch, Amy Hinterberger, Caitlin Connors, LampriniKaftantzi,SaraToccetti,DesFitzgerald,SusannaFinlay,Rachel Bell,CaitlinCockerton,KerstinKlein,CathyHerbrandandAngelaFilipe for their humour, emotional support and friendship. I am also thank- fultomycolleaguesattheDepartmentofMedia,CultureandCreative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s Col- legeLondon.SpecialthankstoChristinaScharff,OfraKoffman,Bridget Conor, Tim Jordan, Rosalind Gill and Andy Pratt for their continuous helpandencouragement. I thank Howard Caygill and Engin Isin for their extremely help- ful comments, feedback and suggestions on an earlier version of this work. The dialogues and exchanges with friends and colleagues from GoldsmithsCollegeandthestimulatingdiscussionsinHowardCaygill’s Contemporary Thought seminars and in the Continental Philosophy Research Group have been a wonderful source of inspiration. Special thanks to Shela Sheikh for having kept me more or less up to date withtherelevantinterestingeventsandseminars.Iwishtoexpressmy appreciation to Joanna Zylinska and Sarah Kember for their great and inspiring mentoring during my studies at Goldsmiths College. I also wishtothankmystudentsatKing’sCollegeLondon. VeryspecialandheartfeltthanksgotoFatima,Zoubida,Dean,Chiara, Kiarash, Christian and Lesley. Their support, warmth, presence and laughter have been a great sustenance. I also thank Michelle, Mansor, Hamid and Rami for their friendship and encouragement, and all the people the encounter with whom has shaped my thinking in many profoundways. IalsowishtothanktheeditorialstaffatPalgraveMacmillanfortheir interestinthisprojectandassistancewithitspublication. viii Acknowledgements ix Someoftheresearchandwritingofthisbookhavebenefitedfromthe financialsupportoftheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalSci- ence,LaFondationpourl’InnovationPolitique,agrantfromFundsfor WomenGraduate,arecognitionawardfromInternationalFederationof UniversityWomen,andaTravelandResearchGrantfromUniversityof London Central Research Fund. I wish to thank these institutions for theirgeneroussupport. Sections of this work are adapted from the following publications: Ajana, B. (2010). ‘Recombinant identities: Biometrics and narrative bioethics’,JournalofBioethicalInquiry,vol.7,no.2andAjana,B.(2012). ‘Biometriccitizenship’,JournalofCitizenshipStudies,vol.16,no.7.
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