The Transparent Traveler
The Performance and Culture of Airport Security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8086291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Hall (corresponding author), Rachel Clare Hall (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Transparent Traveler (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780822375296 |
| OpenAlex | W2413757687 |
| ISBN | 9780822375296 |
| Open Library | OL29719344M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
At the airport we line up, remove our shoes, empty our pockets, and hold still for three seconds in the body scanner. Deemed safe, we put ourselves back together and are free to buy the beverage we were prohibited from taking through security. In The Transparent Traveler Rachel Hall explains how the familiar routines of airport security choreograph passenger behavior to create submissive and docile travelers. The cultural performance of contemporary security practices mobilizes what Hall calls the "aesthetics of transparency." To appear transparent, a passenger must perform innocence and display a willingness to open their body to routine inspection and analysis. Those who cannot-whether because of race, immigration and citizenship status, disability, age, or religion-are deemed opaque, presumed to be a threat, and subject to search and detention. Analyzing everything from airport architecture, photography, and computer-generated imagery to full-body scanners and TSA behavior detection techniques, Hall theorizes the transparent traveler as the embodiment of a cultural ideal of submission to surveillance
Advertising · Aesthetics · Airport security · Art · Business · Citizenship · Computer security · Innocence · Internet privacy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Visual arts · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Photography and Visual Culture · Travel Writing and Literature · 21st century · Aeronautics, commercial, security measures · Airports · Airports, security measures · Commercial Aeronautics · Security measures · Social conditions · united states · United States. Transportation Security Administration · Architecture · Law
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| Citations per year | 1.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |