Overview

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.

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Author:   Keith Breckenridge (Associate Professor Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg) ,  Simon Szreter (Professor of History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College Cambridge.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   182
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.024kg
ISBN:  

9780197265314

ISBN 10:   0197265316
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   11 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Sir C.A. Bayly, FBA: Foreword 1: Editor's Introduction Part 1 Registration, States and Legal PersonhoodSimon Szreter and Keith Breckenridge: 2: Richard von Glahn: Household Registration, Property Rights, and Social Obligations in Imperial China: Principles and Practices 3: Simon Szreter: Registration of identities in early modern English parishes and amongst the English overseas 4: Andreas Fahrmeir: Too Much Information? Too Little Coordination? (Civil) Registration in Nineteenth-Century Germany 5: Osamu Saito and Masahiro Sato: Japan's civil registration systems before and after the Meiji Restoration 6: Paul-André Rosental: Civil Status and Identification in 19th Century France: A matter of state control? Part 2 Registration as Negotiated Recognition 7: Rebecca Flemming: Identity Registration in the Classical Mediterranean World 8: Tamar Herzog: Naming, Identifying and Authorizing Movement in early modern Spain and Spanish America 9: H.D. van Leeuwen: Establishing and Registering Identity in the Dutch Republic - Henk Looijesteijn and Marco 10: Andrew MacDonald: The Identity Thieves of the Indian Ocean: Forgery, Fraud and the Origins of South African Immigration Control, 1890s-1920s 11: Shane Doyle: . Parish Baptism Registers, Vital Registration and Fixing Identities in Uganda Part 3 Empires and registration 12: Ravindran Gopinath: . Identity Registration in India during and after the Raj 13: Stanley L. Engerman: Monitoring the Abolition of the International Slave Trade: Slave Registration in the British Caribbean 14: Khaled Fahmy: Birth of the 'secular' individual: medical and legal methods of identification in 19th-century Egypt 15: Keith Breckenridge: No will to know: the rise and fall of African civil registration in 20th century South Africa 16: Frederick Cooper: Voting, Welfare and Registration: The Strange Fate of the Etat-Civil in French Africa, 1945-1960 Part 4 Registration, Recognition and Human Rights 17: Anne-Emanuelle Birn: Uruguay's child rights approach to health: What role for civil registration? 18: Dominique Marshall: 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 19: Francie Lund: Children, citizenship and child support: the Child Support Grant in post-apartheid South Africa 20: James Ferguson: What Comes after the Social? Historicizing the Future of Social Assistance and Identity Registration in Africa

Reviews

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. Jane Caplan, The English Historical Review

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. * Jane Caplan, The English Historical Review *

Author Information

Keith Breckenridge is Associate Professor, Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge

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