ABSTRACT
Throughout this book there are four issues that are central and ubiquitous in the analysis: technology, identity, security and risk. With influences from Critical Security studies, Surveillance Studies, and Critical International Relations (IR) scholarship, I examine the increasing role and influence of biometric identification technologies and the accompanying articulations of risk, (in)security and identity, and the extent to which the relationship is a mutually constitutive one. These technologies are informed by prevalent notions of risk, (in)security and identity but also help to constitute contemporary understandings and articulations of risk and (in)security, and contribute substantively to contemporary identity. This chapter focuses on two particular aspects of this relationship: the issue of so-called “homegrown terrorism” and what is referred to here as the “theater of security.”
