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List of contributors | p. vii |
Preface and acknowledgments | p. xi |
Setting the scene | p. 1 |
Playing the ID card: Understanding the significance of identity card systems | p. 3 |
Governing by identity | p. 21 |
Plus ca change: Colonial legacies | p. 37 |
The elusive panopticon: The HANIS project and the politics of standards in South Africa | p. 39 |
China's second-generation national identity card: Merging culture, industry and technology | p. 57 |
Hong Kong's 'smart' ID card: Designed to be out of control | p. 75 |
A tale of the colonial age, or the banner of new tyranny? National identification card systems in Japan | p. 93 |
India's new ID card: Fuzzy logics, double meanings and ethnic ambiguities | p. 112 |
Population ID card systems in the Middle East: The case of the UAE | p. 128 |
Encountering democratic opposition | p. 143 |
Separating the sheep from the goats: The United Kingdom's National Registration programme and social sorting in the pre-electronic era | p. 145 |
The United Kingdom identity card scheme: Shifting motivations, static technologies | p. 163 |
The politics of Australia's 'Access Card' | p. 180 |
The INES biometric card and the politics of national identity assignment in France | p. 198 |
The United States Real ID Act and the securitization of identity | p. 218 |
Towards a National ID Card for Canada? External drivers and internal complexities | p. 233 |
Transnational regimes | p. 251 |
ICAO and the biometric RFID passport: History and analysis | p. 253 |
Another piece of Europe in your pocket: The European Health Insurance Card | p. 268 |
Index | p. 280 |
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