Registration and recognition : documenting the person in world history
Registration and recognition
Bok · Engelsk · 2012
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| Omfang | XX, 532 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Meddelelser etter en workshop 7.-10. september 2010 i St John's College, Cambridge. - Editors' introduction: Recognition and registration : the infrastructure of personhood in world history / Simon Szreter and Keith Breckenridge -- Household registration, property rights, and social obligations in Imperial China : principles and practices / Richard von Glahn -- Registration of identities in early modern English parishes and amongst the English overseas / Simon Szreter -- Too much information? Too little coordination? : (civil) registration in nineteenth-century Germany / Andreas Fahrmeir -- Japan's civil registration systems before and after the Meiji restoration / Osamu Saito and Masahiro Sato -- Civil status and identification in nineteenth-century France : a matter of state control? / Paul-André Rosental -- Identity registration in the classical Mediterranean world / Rebecca Flemming -- Naming, identifying and authorizing movement in early modern Spain and Spanish America / Tamar Herzog-- Establishing and registering identity in the Dutch Republic / Henk Looijesteijn and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen -- The identity thieves of the Indian Ocean : forgery, fraud and the origins of South African immigration control, 1890s-1920s / Andrew MacDonald -- Parish baptism registers, vital registration and fixing identities in Uganda / Shane Doyle -- Identity registration in India during and after the Raj / Ravindran Gopinath -- Monitoring the abolition of the international slave trade : slave registration in the British Caribbean / Stanley L. Engerman -- Birth of the "secular" individual : medical and legal methods of identification in nineteenth-century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy -- No will to know : the rise and fall of African civil registration in twentieth-century South Africa / Keith Breckenridge -- Voting, welfare and registration : the strange fate of the État-Civil in French Africa, 1945-1960 / Frederick Cooper-- Uruguay's child rights approach to health : what role for civil registration? / Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- Birth registration and the promotion of children's rights in the interwar years : the Save the Children International Union's Conference on the African Child, and Herbert Hoover's American Child Health Association / Dominique Marshall -- Children, citizenship and child support : the Child Support Grant in post-apartheid South Africa / Francie Lund -- What comes after the social? Historicizing the future of social assistance and identity registration in Africa / James Ferguson.. - Registration has typically been viewed as coercive and as a feature of the rise of the modern European state. As this volume shows, however, the registration of individuals has taken remarkably similar forms in very different societies across the world and at different times. Imperial China, for example, had in place a registration order aimed at measuring and preserving the well-being of its population at lest two thousand years ago. In the present day, biometric registration systems promise to bypass the difficulties of building a birth and death registration infrastructure in countries in Africa and South Asia where there has been little history of registration. The volume explores many themes related to registration across the globe and across time, including legal personhood, registration as negotiated recognition, empires and registration, and human rights. The close study of practices of registration provides a tool that supports analytical comparisons across time and regions, raising a common, limited set of comparative questions that highlight the differences between the forms of state power and the responsibilities and entitlements of individuals and families.--Jacket.
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| ISBN | 978-0-19-726531-4
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