Rövid leírás:
Identity recognition of individuals by the groups they are born into or wish to affiliate themselves with has been a universal human experience but any registration documentation has received little scholarly attention. This introduction to a new subject presents a wide-ranging set of original studies of registration over 2000 years.
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Hosszú leírás:
This is a comparative investigation of different regional histories of registration – a feature of societies common across Asia, Europe and the Americas, but poorly understood in contemporary social science. Registration has typically been viewed as coercive, and as a product of the rise of the modern European state. This volume shows that the registration of individuals has taken remarkably similar, and interestingly comparable, forms in very different societies across the world. The volume also suggests that registration has many hitherto neglected benefits for individuals, and that modern states have frequently sought to curtail, or avoid responsibility for, it. The book shows that the close study of practices of registration provides a tool – like class, gender or state – that supports analytical comparisons across time and region, 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.
a welcome addition to a limited literature … The editors and contributors are to be congratulated … on achieving a volume that advances the empirical and interpretative agendas so impressively.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Foreword
Editor’s Introduction
Part 1 Registration, States and Legal Personhood
Household Registration, Property Rights, and Social Obligations in Imperial China: Principles and Practices
Registration of identities in early modern English parishes and amongst the English overseas
Too Much Information? Too Little Coordination? (Civil) Registration in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Japan’s civil registration systems before and after the Meiji Restoration
Civil Status and Identification in 19th Century France: A matter of state control?
Part 2 Registration as Negotiated Recognition
Identity Registration in the Classical Mediterranean World
Naming, Identifying and Authorizing Movement in early modern Spain and Spanish America
Establishing and Registering Identity in the Dutch Republic – Henk Looijesteijn and Marco
The Identity Thieves of the Indian Ocean: Forgery, Fraud and the Origins of South African Immigration Control, 1890s-1920s
. Parish Baptism Registers, Vital Registration and Fixing Identities in Uganda
Part 3 Empires and registration
. Identity Registration in India during and after the Raj
Monitoring the Abolition of the International Slave Trade: Slave Registration in the British Caribbean
Birth of the ‘secular’ individual: medical and legal methods of identification in 19th-century Egypt
No will to know: the rise and fall of African civil registration in 20th century South Africa
Voting, Welfare and Registration: The Strange Fate of the Etat-Civil in French Africa, 1945-1960
Part 4 Registration, Recognition and Human Rights
Uruguay’s child rights approach to health: What role for civil registration?
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
Children, citizenship and child support: the Child Support Grant in post-apartheid South Africa
What Comes after the Social? Historicizing the Future of Social Assistance and Identity Registration in Africa
