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Airport Security and Visibility: Security as Visualisation and its In-place Performance

Publikace na Fakulta sociálních věd |
2020

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Based on field research at Václav Havel Airport Prague and building on Actor-Network Theory, the article inquires the role of visibility in production of the contemporary form of airport security. Visualization is understood as the acquisition of comprehensive information about a limited set of characteristics in sparse time.

The article explores how the mode of vision opted for-the chosen set of characteristics-is found accountable for shaping the notions of threat and security. The article identifies the security and social consequences of particular mode of vision employment and inquires the limits of visibility.