%0 Article, E-Article %A Werbin, Kenneth C. %I University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) %D 2009 %D 2009 %G English %@ 0705-3657 %@ 1499-6642 %~ adlr.link - Literatur für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaftler %T Fear and No-Fly Listing in Canada: The Biopolitics of the “War on Terror” %V 34 %J Canadian Journal of Communication %V 34 %N 4 %P 613-634 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2009v34n4a2070 %X Canada’s no-fly list is examined here as a biopolitical plot line of the “war on terror”: one that is constructed on techno-scientific language and practices that authorize and legitimize “us” versus “them” discriminatory dichotomies and thinking. Given that the misidentification of “normal” people on no-fly lists is a rampant story in media reporting, this analysis also reveals that the “truth” of the efficient and effective policing of high-risk milieus of circulation, like airports, through discriminatory logics is a precarious one at best. The author argues that the no-fly list plot line of the “war on terror” masks the techno-deterministic and discriminatory thinking behind these post-9/11 security measures—that the right technological arrangement, deployed in the right way, can invariably solve any governmental problem, including terrorism. %Z https://katalog.adlr.link/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuMjIyMzAvY2pjLjIwMDl2MzRuNGEyMDcw %U https://katalog.adlr.link/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuMjIyMzAvY2pjLjIwMDl2MzRuNGEyMDcw