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Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective

People, Papers and Practices

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Editors:
  1. Ilsen About

    1. Aix-Marseille University, France

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  2. James Brown

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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  3. Gayle Lonergan

    1. Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ilsen About, James R. Brown, Gayle Lonergan
      Pages 1-13

  3. The Central State: Systems, Standards and Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Individual Identity and Identification in Eighteenth-Century France

      • Vincent Denis
      Pages 17-30

    3. Registration as Privilege: The Moscow Residence Permit as a Mark of Privilege in the Russian Empire, 1881–1905

      • Gayle Lonergan
      Pages 31-43

    4. Dissemination of the Argentine Dactyloscopy System in the Early Twentieth Century: Local, Regional and International Dimensions

      • Mercedes García Ferrari
      Pages 44-59

    5. The Philosopher and the Printer: Practices of Criminal Identification in Fascist Italy

      • Massimiliano Pagani
      Pages 60-76

    6. De-neutralizing Identification: S. & Marper v. United Kingdom, Biometric Databases, Uniqueness, Privacy and Human Rights

      • Simon A. Cole
      Pages 77-97

    7. The Biometric Fetish

      • Emilio Mordini, Andrew P. Rebera
      Pages 98-110
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This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use.

Reviews

"Identification practices, though ancient in origin, are increasingly significant for daily life and consequential, for good or ill, for individuals and groups. This impressive collection glows with brilliant insights on how and why they have developed as they have, in different countries and cultures. Fascinating, illuminating and sometimes scary."

David Lyon, Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada.

"This fine collection constitutes a major contribution to our growing understanding of the importance of identification practices in the modern world. It broadens the lens in both geographical and temporal terms. The volume thus extends the range of our appreciation of these practices and invites further research on under-studied areas and periods. The book represents a decisive advance in the frontier of identification studies."

John Torpey, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aix-Marseille University, France

    Ilsen About

  • University of Oxford, UK

    James Brown

  • Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK

    Gayle Lonergan

About the editors

Jane Caplan, University of Oxford, UK Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine, USA Claudine Dardy, University of Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, France Vincent Denis, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Mercedes García Ferrari, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina Melanie Griffiths, University of Oxford, UK Edward Higgs, University of Essex, UK Karl Jakob Krogness, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Emilio Mordini, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy Massimiliano Pagani, University of Exeter, UK Pierre Piazza, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Andrew P. Rebera, University of Sussex, UK Simon Szreter, University of Cambridge, UK Ian Watson, Bifröst University, Iceland

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