Crossing the TSA
Author | : Dr. Lia Roth |
Publisher | : Editorial Campanadas |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2019-05-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781951010010 |
ISBN-13 | : 1951010019 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In Crossing the TSA, Field notes on St. Louis, MO – Boston, MA Trips, the author analyzes her own recurrent experience of passing TSA security checkpoints. Airport security checkpoints mark a central axis that regulates language, behavior, and social status within travelers’ microcosms. There are three stations to crossing any given checkpoint. The exploration of those three steps reveals a subjective disassembling line. At the TSA, passengers are mandated to lay down their carry-ons and garments for inspection, raise their arms up and submit their bodies to an intrusive scrutiny. By regulating the body, the ego is also regulated. The TSA appears as a series of stages in a subjective disassembling line that transforms the original citizen traveler into an output called passenger. The TSA provides an institutionalized sense of safety.