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Identification and registration practices in transnational perspecti ve : people, papers and practices / edited by Ilsen About, Postdo ctoral Research Fellow, Aix-Marseille University, James Brown, Project Coordinator, Faculty of History, University of Oxford and Gayle Lonerga n, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford ; foreword by Jane Caplan, Emeritus Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of European History, Bryn Mawr College and Edward Higgs, Professor of H istory, University of Essex.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: St Antony's seriesPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave M acmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 2013. New York, NY : Description: x, 344 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230354388 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 929.9   23
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Editors and Contributors -- Intr oduction; Ilsen About, James R. Brown and Gayle Lonergan -- PART I: THE CENTRAL STATE: SYSTEMS, STANDARDS, AND TECHNIQUES -- 1. Individual Ide ntity and Identification in 18th Century France; Vincent Denis -- 2. Re gistration as Privilege: The Moscow Residence Permit as a Mark of Privi lege in the Russian Empire, 1881-1905; Gayle Lonergan -- 3. Disseminati on of the Argentine Dactyloscopy System in the Early Twentieth Century: Local, Regional and International Dimensions; Mercedes Garci;a Ferrari -- 4. The Philosopher and the Printer: Practices of Criminal Identific ation in Fascist Italy; Massimiliano Pagani -- 5. De-Neutralizing Ident ification: S. & Marper v. United Kingdom, Biometric Databases, Uniquene ss, Privacy, and Human Rights; Simon A. Cole -- 6. The Biometric Fetish ; Emilio Mordini and Andrew P. Rebera -- PART II: BEYOND THE CENTRAL ST ATE: COMMUNITY, COMMERCE, AND ECONOMICS -- 7. The Parish Registers in E arly Modern English History: Registration from Above and Below; Simon S zreter -- 8. An Unusually Open Identification Number System: The Icelan dic Kennitala; Ian Watson -- 9. From Custom to Civil Status Registratio n: The Anthropology of Kinship and the Rule of Law; Claudine Dardy -- 1 0. Consuming Identity and Consuming the State in Britain since c. 1750; Edward Higgs -- PART III: THE IDENTIFIED: PERCEPTION, RESISTANCE, AND NEGOTIATION -- 11. Cat and Mouse Games: The State, Indians in the Cape and the Permit System, 1900s-1920s; Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie -- 12. A Pape r Trap. Exiles versus the Identification Police in France during the In terwar Period; Ilsen About -- 13. 'Ausweis Bitte!' Identity and Identif ication in Nazi Germany; Jane Caplan -- 14. What Do You Think The House hold Register Is? Perceptions of Koseki Relating to Social Order and In dividual Rights in 1950s and 2000s Japan; Karl Jakob Krogness -- 15. De nouncing and Resisting. Identity Assignment Policies in France, 1970-20 10; Pierre Piazza -- 16. 'Establishing Your True Identity:' Immigration Detention and Contemporary Identification Debates; Melanie Griffiths - - Afterword -- The Future of Identification's Past: Reflections on the Development of Historical Identification Studies; Jane Caplan and Edwar d Higgs -- Index.
Summary: "Utilising sources that range from 16th century parish registers to the 21st century supermarket loyalty card, this collection examines th e history and development of identification documents and surveillance techniques over the past 500 years. Combining the knowledge of several experts from a variety of disciplines, this volume successfully demonst rates how identification and registration can enable and empower a popu lation, particularly if the interests of the state and population coinc ide. It also reveals the weakness of states or corporations when dealin g with issues such as popular resistance and fraud, despite great leaps forward in the scientific methods of identifying individuals. This imp ortant book offers a vital contribution to the literature on a variety of topical subject areas such as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use, as such it is of interest to students an d scholars of civil and human rights amongst other disciplines"-- Pr ovided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-332) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Editors and Contributors -- Intr oduction; Ilsen About, James R. Brown and Gayle Lonergan -- PART I: THE CENTRAL STATE: SYSTEMS, STANDARDS, AND TECHNIQUES -- 1. Individual Ide ntity and Identification in 18th Century France; Vincent Denis -- 2. Re gistration as Privilege: The Moscow Residence Permit as a Mark of Privi lege in the Russian Empire, 1881-1905; Gayle Lonergan -- 3. Disseminati on of the Argentine Dactyloscopy System in the Early Twentieth Century: Local, Regional and International Dimensions; Mercedes Garci;a Ferrari -- 4. The Philosopher and the Printer: Practices of Criminal Identific ation in Fascist Italy; Massimiliano Pagani -- 5. De-Neutralizing Ident ification: S. & Marper v. United Kingdom, Biometric Databases, Uniquene ss, Privacy, and Human Rights; Simon A. Cole -- 6. The Biometric Fetish ; Emilio Mordini and Andrew P. Rebera -- PART II: BEYOND THE CENTRAL ST ATE: COMMUNITY, COMMERCE, AND ECONOMICS -- 7. The Parish Registers in E arly Modern English History: Registration from Above and Below; Simon S zreter -- 8. An Unusually Open Identification Number System: The Icelan dic Kennitala; Ian Watson -- 9. From Custom to Civil Status Registratio n: The Anthropology of Kinship and the Rule of Law; Claudine Dardy -- 1 0. Consuming Identity and Consuming the State in Britain since c. 1750; Edward Higgs -- PART III: THE IDENTIFIED: PERCEPTION, RESISTANCE, AND NEGOTIATION -- 11. Cat and Mouse Games: The State, Indians in the Cape and the Permit System, 1900s-1920s; Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie -- 12. A Pape r Trap. Exiles versus the Identification Police in France during the In terwar Period; Ilsen About -- 13. 'Ausweis Bitte!' Identity and Identif ication in Nazi Germany; Jane Caplan -- 14. What Do You Think The House hold Register Is? Perceptions of Koseki Relating to Social Order and In dividual Rights in 1950s and 2000s Japan; Karl Jakob Krogness -- 15. De nouncing and Resisting. Identity Assignment Policies in France, 1970-20 10; Pierre Piazza -- 16. 'Establishing Your True Identity:' Immigration Detention and Contemporary Identification Debates; Melanie Griffiths - - Afterword -- The Future of Identification's Past: Reflections on the Development of Historical Identification Studies; Jane Caplan and Edwar d Higgs -- Index.

"Utilising sources that range from 16th century parish registers to the 21st century supermarket loyalty card, this collection examines th e history and development of identification documents and surveillance techniques over the past 500 years. Combining the knowledge of several experts from a variety of disciplines, this volume successfully demonst rates how identification and registration can enable and empower a popu lation, particularly if the interests of the state and population coinc ide. It also reveals the weakness of states or corporations when dealin g with issues such as popular resistance and fraud, despite great leaps forward in the scientific methods of identifying individuals. This imp ortant book offers a vital contribution to the literature on a variety of topical subject areas such as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use, as such it is of interest to students an d scholars of civil and human rights amongst other disciplines"-- Pr ovided by publisher.

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