From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as Evidence reveal how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed to classify, recognize, and manage human life. Through global case studies that explore biometric identification, border control, forensics, predictive policing, and counterterrorism, the contributors show how security discourses and practices that target the body contribute to new configurations of knowledge and power. At the same time, margins of error, unreliable technologies, and a growing suspicion of scientific evidence in a “post-truth” era contribute to growing insecurity, especially among marginalized populations. Contributors. Carolina Alonso-Bejarano, Gregory Feldman, Francisco J. Ferrándiz, Daniel M. Goldstein, Ieva Jusionyte, Amade M’charek, Mark Maguire, Joseph P. Masco, Ursula Rao, Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Joseba Zulaika, Nils Zurawski "The volume certainly highlights what a conceptual anthropological engagement with 'security,' as well as with 'evidence' means. The volume will be worth reading for scholars in- and out-side anthropology interested in the production of knowledge, technologies, security and governmentality."   -- Monika Weissensteiner ― Surveillance Studies “ Bodies as Evidence poses a bold premise. It argues that not only is evidence beholden to social and political influences but that the glorification of evidence has demonstrable, and often dangerous, side effects on already marginalized communities. Its exemplary use of ethnographic and reflexive methodologies illustrates the vast complexity of seemingly objective data, and the practical limitations of collecting and employing it.”   -- Sarah Maya Rosen ― Journal of International & Global Studies “This timely book will be of interest to political, legal, and social geographers concerned with the embodied and spatial implications of shifting laws and borders, and demands for evidence by and against the state.”   -- Emily C. Kaufman ― Social & Cultural Geography “This unique and unusually important book explains why the ‘body’—as both corporeal identity and as metaphor—has become so vital to understanding present-day security concerns, projects, and technologies. With its novel use of evidence-gathering and evidence-based knowledge both as a lens through which to critique the contemporary security state and as an organizing principle for the range of topics and cases covered, this book will be welcomed by anthropologists of security and policing, as well as sociologists, STS scholars, and others working on immigration and refugee issues, forensics, and war and technology.” -- Andrew Bickford, author of ― Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany Mark Maguire is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University. Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. Nils Zurawski is Senior Researcher and Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg. Maguire and Zurawski are coeditors of The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counterterrorism, and Border Control . Rao is author of News as Culture: Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions . Bodies As Evidence Security, Knowledge, and Power By Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao, Nils Zurawski Duke University Press Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0294-9 Contents Introduction: Bodies as Evidence Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao, 1 The Truth of the Error: Making Identity and Security through Biometric Discrimination Elida K. U. Jacobsen and Ursula Rao, 2 Injured by the Border: Security Buildup, Migrant Bodies, and Emergency Response in Southern Arizona Ieva Jusionyte, 3 E-Terrify: Securitized Immigration and Biometric Surveillance in the Workplace Daniel M. Goldstein and Carolina Alonso-Bejarano, 4 "Dead-Bodies-at-the-Border": Distributed Evidence and Emerging Forensic Infrastructure for Identification Amade M'charek, 5 The Transitional Lives of Crimes against Humanity: Forensic Evidence under Changing Political Circumstances Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Francisco J. Ferrándiz, 6 Policing Future Crimes Mark Maguire, 7 "Intelligence" and "Evidence": Sovereign Authority and the Differences That Words Make Gregory Feldman, 8 The Secrecy/Threat Matrix Joseph P. Masco, 9 What Do You Want? Evidence and Fantasy in the War on Terror Joseba Zulaika, Conclusion: Discontinuities and Diversity Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao, Contributors, Index, CHAPTER 1 The Truth of the Error Making Identity and Security through Biometric