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Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History

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  • Breckenridge, Keith
    (Associate Professor Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg)

  • Szreter, Simon
    (Professor of History and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College Cambridge.)

Abstract

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. Available in OSO: Contributors to this volume - Simon Szreter Keith Breckenridge Richard von Glahn Simon Szreter Andreas Fahrmeir Osamu Saito Masahiro Sato Paul-Andre Rosental Rebecca Flemming Tamar Herzog H.D. van Leeuwen Andrew MacDonald Shane Doyle Ravindran Gopinath Stanley L. Engerman Khaled Fahmy Keith Breckenridge Frederick Cooper Anne-Emanuelle Birn Dominique Marshall Francie Lund James Ferguson

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  • Breckenridge, Keith & Szreter, Simon (ed.), 2012. "Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780197265314.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780197265314
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    1. Fuseini Waah Salifu & Zaid Abubakari & Christine Richter, 2019. "Innovating Along the Continuum of Land Rights Recognition: Meridia’s “Documentation Packages” for Ghana," Land, MDPI, vol. 8(12), pages 1-18, December.
    2. Harbers, Imke, 2020. "Legal identity for all? Gender inequality in the timing of birth registration in Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    3. Manby, Bronwen, 2021. "The Sustainable Development Goals and ‘legal identity for all’: ‘First, do no harm’," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
    4. Alan Gelb & Julia Clark, 2013. "Performance Lessons from India’s Universal Identification Program," Working Papers id:5512, eSocialSciences.
    5. Zaid Abubakari & Christine Richter & Jaap Zevenbergen, 2020. "Evaluating Some Major Assumptions in Land Registration: Insights from Ghana’s Context of Land Tenure and Registration," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-14, August.
    6. Social Policy and Population Section, Social Development Division, ESCAP., 2014. "Asia-Pacific Population Journal Volume 29, No. 1," Asia-Pacific Population Journal, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), vol. 29(1), pages 1-150, November.
    7. Sarah Walters, 2016. "Counting Souls," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 34(3), pages 63-108.
    8. Beth Vale & Rebecca Hodes & Lucie Cluver & Mildred Thabeng, 2017. "Bureaucracies of Blood and Belonging: Documents, HIV‐positive Youth and the State in South Africa," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 48(6), pages 1287-1309, November.
    9. Roel Heijlen & Joep Crompvoets & Geert Bouckaert & Maxim Chantillon, 2018. "Evolving Government Information Processes for Service Delivery: Identifying Types & Impact," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-14, May.

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