{"id":239,"date":"2019-05-02T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:23:31","slug":"illustrated-book-review-bodies-of-evidence-security-power-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVIEW: \u201cBodies as Evidence. Security, Knowledge, and Power\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-review_Weissensteiner_image-1-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-review_Weissensteiner_image-1-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-review_Weissensteiner_image-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-review_Weissensteiner_image-1-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-review_Weissensteiner_image-1.jpg 1372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The human body has become a privileged \u201cbearer and signifier\u201d of in\/security \u2013 so the main message of the book<strong> \u201cBodies as Evidence. Security, Knowledge, and Power\u201d <\/strong>(eds. Maguire, Rao, Zurawski 2018). As such,  body-evidence relations can be turned into an insightful object of  inquiry, as the nine thematic chapters of the book show. Jean Comaroff  praises the book precisely for illuminating \u201cthe core drama of our times, when radical uncertainty feeds a fetishism of evidence,  when alt-authoritarianism breeds a strange new relativism and an  insidious obsession with fakery\u201d (book-cover).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illustrated book review by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.nl\/staff\/mweissensteiner\">Monika Weissensteiner<\/a>, continue reading via  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveillance-studies.org\/2019\/04\/rezension-bodies-as-evidence\/\">https:\/\/www.surveillance-studies.org<\/a> and have a look at the animated illustrations (video) of the first chapter below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-review_chapter-1_weissensteiner.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human body has become a privileged \u201cbearer and signifier\u201d of in\/security \u2013 so the main message of the book \u201cBodies as Evidence. Security, Knowledge, and Power\u201d (eds. Maguire, Rao, Zurawski 2018). As such, body-evidence relations can be turned into an insightful object of inquiry, as the nine thematic chapters of the book show. Jean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}