2012 Winner: "Naked" Security: Re-Imagining Full-Body Scanners

Project Information
"Naked" Security: Re-Imagining Full-Body Scanners
Humanities
FMST 195- Senior Thesis Project
"Naked" Security: Re-Imagining Full-Body Scanners examines the establishment of full-body scanners (FBS) across U.S. airports over the past four years. In not only contextualizing FBS's within in the socio-political sphere in which it arose, I examine and critique how we understand "objects" as objective instruments while exploring the limits of current security studies. Arising from a post-9/11 environment, FBS's and arguments against the technologies consequently (re)construct both the body and nation in ways that both marginalize certain subjects while continuing to establish nationalism and an increasingly security oriented culture.
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Students
  • Angelo Jack Haidaris (Kresge)
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