ABSTRACT
This chapter, co-written with John Measor, is a poignant example of the bordering practices that extend well beyond the Canada/US border. A reliance on specific forms of risk management (RM), the utilization of surveillance and biometric identification technologies, and a general proliferation of borders can be clearly viewed in strategic applications throughout the so-called “war on terror.” The case study of the annihilation of Fallujah, and more importantly for this analysis, the reconstruction process and re-integration (or re-branding) of the indigenous population, bears witness to the same logics and preoccupations in domestic US homeland security policies and border security strategies. In so doing, this case study serves to underscore the ubiquity of these logics and the preeminence of technology, the complex relationship between security, identity, technology and borders – the four dominant themes running throughout this text – and the extent to which the proliferation of particular bordering practices contributes to zones of indistinction or spaces of exception. In this sense, the Robert Dziekanski case in Vancouver Airport, and the security response to his presence and
actions share much with the population of Fallujah and how they and their “identity” was managed.
