Dr Mark Maguire

Biography

I am a social anthropologist with expertise in security processes and technologies, especially counter-terrorism, biometric security, the detection of abnormal behaviour, and new predictive security systems. My current research focuses on what happens when things go wrong in major critical infrastructure sites and transportation hubs; I coordinate a project on the "Anthropology of Ten Minutes”, which explores the first, critical few minutes of a terrorist attack, looking at human behaviours during different incidents in different cultural environments. My research on security is shown in the recent volume I edited with Catriona Frois and Nils Zurawski, The Anthropology of Security: perspectives from the frontline of policing, counter-terrorism and border control (Pluto 2014). I am also editing Bodies of Evidence: security, knowledge and power with Ursula Rao and Nils Zurawski, and Spaces of Security: security as an ethnographic object, with Setha M. Low.

Research Interest

Anthropology