Cleared and Present: Danger in the Personnel Security Clearance System

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dc.contributor.advisorGusterson, Hugh
dc.contributor.authorDeutscher, Martha Louise
dc.creatorDeutscher, Martha Louise
dc.date2014-12
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-24T19:39:25Z
dc.date.available2015-03-24T19:39:25Z
dc.date.issued2015-03-24
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation critically examines the Personnel Security Clearance System, the process by which the federal government incorporates individuals into secret national security work, and how individuals experience the process. The study investigates the phenomenology of the U.S. secrecy system, paying particular attention to the ways in which security clearance practices discipline and transform individuals who are subject to them. The study elucidates the relationship between individual bodies and state power as articulated in the personnel security clearance process--through the voices of the system's participants. Tracing the circuit of the culture of the security clearance process from the moment of its production, through revision and rearticulation, allows insight into the multiple layers of meanings that are embedded in and extracted from the way we think about the personnel security clearance process, national security, patriotism and the state.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/9228
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsCopyright 2014 Martha Louise Deutscher
dc.subjectClearance
dc.subjectFederal
dc.subjectPersonnel
dc.subjectSecret
dc.subjectSecurity
dc.titleCleared and Present: Danger in the Personnel Security Clearance System
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineCultural Studies
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePhD in Cultural Studies

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