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Notes on surveillance studies : through the door of no return -- "Everybody's got a little light under the sun" : the making of the book of Negroes -- B®anding blackness : biometric technology and the surveillance of blackness -- "What did TSA find in Solange's fro'? : security theater at the airport -- Epilogue : when blackness enters the frame

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, Browne draws from black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as the methods of surveilling blackness she discusses: from the design of the eighteenth-century slave ship Brooks, Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, and The Book of Negroes, to contemporary art, literature, biometrics, and post-9/11 airport security practices. Surveillance, Browne asserts, is both a discursive and material practice that reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines, so much so that the surveillance of blackness has long been, and continues to be, a social and political norm

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.

A review essay on books by (1) David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, & Bice Maiguashca (Eds), Governance and Resistance in World Politics (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2003); (2) Lisa D. Brush, Gender and Governance (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2003); (3) Ann Florini, The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Washington: Island, 2003); & (4) Mike Moore, A World without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2003). 3 References.

The case of Mavis Baker v. (Canada) Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and the print news media discourse surrounding the case are examined in this article to uncover how the notion of border control, rooted in Canada's national story, shapes current state discourses and practices. ; Le cas de Mavis Baker VS (Canada) Ministre de la citoyennete et de l'lmmigration, et les discours des medias de presses au sujet du cas sont etudies dans cet article pour decouvrir comment la notion du controle des frontieres, ancree dans 1'histoire nationale, definie l'etat courant du discours et des politiques.