Digital Epidermalization
Race, Identity and Biometrics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2369845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simone Browne (0000-0002-0926-0963, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA,) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-150 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0896920509347144 |
| OpenAlex | W2009404140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 93 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article considers the ways in which what Paul Gilroy terms 'epidermal thinking' operates in the discourses surrounding certain surveillance practices and their applications, with a focus on identification documents and biometric technologies in particular. My aim is not to re-ontologize race, but instead to outline the notion of digital epidermalization, stemming from Frantz Fanon's concept of epidermalization, as it allows for thinking through race, ontological insecurity and the ways in which the body materializes with and against biometric technologies. I examine key research in surveillance studies, governmental policy documents concerning biometric enabled identification documents and the 2003 'deportation' to India of a Canadian citizen through the issuance of an expedited removal order by the US Immigration and Naturalization Services. By interrogating how digital epidermalization gains meaning and is put into practice, this article seeks to posit a space for refusals of such epidermal thinking through a critical biometric consciousness
Aesthetics · Biometrics · Citizenship · Computer security · Deportation · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Immigration · Internet privacy · Naturalization · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Race (biology · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Race, Genetics, and Society · Gender Studies · Law
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 92 |