Alexis-Mark

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 * Alexis: alexiskvu@gmail.com**
 * Mark: wernermark060@gmail.com**

We begin with Katherine Cross’ explanation of normalized transphobia in the airport:
quoted in Currah and Mulqueen 11 —Paisley, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn University, Tara, Ph.D. student at Birbeck University of London, “Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Transgender Bodies at the Airport,” social research Vol. 78 : No. 2 : Summer 2011, http://sites.middlebury.edu/soan191/files/2013/08/currahsecuritizinggender.pdf, pg. 6, AR—AD: 7/13/15 As I engaged in the ritual striptease AND At that moment I knew...that I was safe. For now.

Cross continues…
quoted in Currah and Mulqueen 11 —Paisley, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn University, Tara, Ph.D. student at Birbeck University of London, “Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Transgender Bodies at the Airport,” social research Vol. 78 : No. 2 : Summer 2011, http://sites.middlebury.edu/soan191/files/2013/08/currahsecuritizinggender.pdf, pg. 8, AR—AD: 7/13/15 I escorted my belongings, the worn leather boots AND impertinent questions about what was in my knickers

These surveillance policies are reflective of a broader system of domination and destruction that attempts to root out difference at places as simple as the airport. The “Secure Flight” program relies on matching consumer’s genders to the FBI’s terrorist watch list. This is part and parcel of a broader “war on terror” turned “war on difference”—the result is an unending form of discursive and material transphobic violence—rejecting this securitization is a necessary precondition to disrupting the bureaucratic dysphoria that renders identities intelligible. Currah and Mulqueen 1 1 —Paisley, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn University, Tara, Ph.D. student at Birbeck University of London, “Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Transgender Bodies at the Airport,” social research Vol. 78 : No. 2 : Summer 2011, [], pg. 3-10, AR—AD: 7/13/15 Implemented in 2009, the TSA's "Secure Flight" program requires AND granular analysis of conflicts over gender classification in the U.S. airport

====Biometric gender surveillance operates as a process of normalization that constantly reduces gender to the stable categories of Male/Female—this process is always managed by a “higher” power that grids identity into intelligible positions—rejecting this system is a starting point for recognizing subject positions are fluid and contingent on more than mere visual difference.==== Currah and Mulqueen 11 —Paisley, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn University, Tara, Ph.D. student at Birbeck University of London, “Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Transgender Bodies at the Airport,” social research Vol. 78 : No. 2 : Summer 2011, http://sites.middlebury.edu/soan191/files/2013/08/currahsecuritizinggender.pdf, pg. 14-15, AR—AD: 7/13/15 But the secure flight program does not just use AND sense belief that gender is a unitary component of identity

This norm replicates transphobic violence and ushers in an essentialist understanding of gender. Magnet and Rodgers ’12 (Shoshana, assistant professor in the Institute of Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa, and Tara, assistant professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, 2012, “Stripping for the State,” p. 111, //Feminist Media Studies,// Volume 12) **JS-D** Backscatter and milliliter wave technologies have significant consequences AND helping to produce transgender bodies as suspect

This norm is key to the structure of the security state and justifies endless war in the name of protecting the civilian.
Redden and Terry 11 – Stephanie, professor of political science at Carleton University, Jillian, Department of International Relations at London School of Economics and Political Science, “The End of the Line: Feminist Understandings of Resistance to Full Body Scanning Technology,” International Feminist Journal of Politics Jun2013, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p234-253. 20p. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=88353443&site=ehost-live xx AD – 7/16/15; AKV This literature is intimately connected to the theoretical work AND invisible by nature of the supposed neutrality of technologies

Targeted governance in the airport strengthens securitized circuits of control
Currah and Mulqueen 11 —Paisley, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn University, Tara, Ph.D. student at Birbeck University of London, “Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Transgender Bodies at the Airport,” social research Vol. 78 : No. 2 : Summer 2011, http://sites.middlebury.edu/soan191/files/2013/08/currahsecuritizinggender.pdf, pg. 10-11, AR—AD: 7/13/15 Rose coined the phrase "securitization of identity" AND become one of the most intensely securitized sites of identity verification

The surveillance state attempts to control threats that cannot be predicted under a linear model of analysis
Doherty 11 – Brian, senior editor of //Reason// magazine, former Cato Institute worker, “Dignity Doesn’t Fly,” The American Conservative Feb2011, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p22-23. 2p. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=47515315&site=ehost-live xx AD: 7/19/15; AKV Guided by concerns for the life of statistical populations AND dramatically reconfiguring the project of contemporary politics

The neoliberal logic of the state creates nihilism and the waging of wars on those who do not align their ways of life
Doherty 11 – Brian, senior editor of //Reason// magazine, former Cato Institute worker, “Dignity Doesn’t Fly,” The American Conservative Feb2011, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p22-23. 2p. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=47515315&site=ehost-live xx AD: 7/19/15; AKV This article is divided into three parts, which addresses AND liberal discourse necessitates the securitization of global life

Attempts to save ourselves from terrorist threats results in an endless cycle of irony – giving up our rights in order to save them
Doherty 11 – Brian, senior editor of //Reason// magazine, former Cato Institute worker, “Dignity Doesn’t Fly,” The American Conservative Feb2011, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p22-23. 2p. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=47515315&site=ehost-live xx AD: 7/19/15; AKV

Dillon's work focuses on the idea that the locus AND sovereign power to the logic of biopolitics is perhaps most apparent

The project of liberal subject building is a nihilistic violent enterprise that destroys value to life and causes endless warfare
====Evans and Reid 1**3** [Brad, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristole, and Julian, “Dangerously exposed: the life and death of the resilient subject,” //Resilience//, 2013, Vol. 1 (2), pp. 83-98]====

Resilient subjects are subjects that have accepted
AND permeate our ways of living devoid of any meaning as such

The state’s method of risk analysis crowds out any space for debate or conceiving possible alternatives
Higgens and Dibden 10 – Vaughan, professor in sociology at School of Applied Media and Social Sciences, Jacqui, PhD at the University of London UK, “Biosecurity, trade liberalisation, and the (anti)politics of risk analysis: the Australia – New Zealand apples dispute,” 2011, volume 43, pages 393-409 //Environment and Planning,// http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=60263950&site=ehost-live xx AD: 7/22/15; AKV

Barry uses Callon's analysis of the 'technological economy" AND fragility of these practices and the political effects to which this gives rise


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