Playing the identity card
Subtitle: surveillance, security and identification in global perspective
By: edited by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon.
Contributors: Bennett, Colin J. 1955-; Lyon, David, 1948-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780415465632; 9780415465649; 9780203927137
Subjects: Identification cards -- Case studies; Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Privacy, Right of -- Case studies; Liberty
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
Table of contents: title: List of contributors; title: Preface and acknowledgements; title: Setting the scene; title: Playing the ID card: understanding the significance of identity card systems / DAVID LYON AND COLIN J. BENNETT; title: Governing by identity / LOUISE AMOORE; title: Plus ça change: colonial legacies; title: The elusive panopticon: the HANIS project and the politics of standards in South Africa / KEITH BRECKENRIDGE; title: China's second generation national identity card: merging culture, industry, and technology for authentication, classification, and surveillance / CHERYL L. BROWN; title: Hong Kong's "smart" ID card: designed to be out of control / GRAHAM GREENLEAF; title: A tale of the colonial age, or the banner of new tyranny? National identification card systems in Japan / MIDORI OGASAWARA; title: India's new ID card: fuzzy logics, double meanings and ethnic ambiguities / TAHA MEHMOOD; title: Population ID card systems in the Middle East: the case of the UAE / ZEINAB KARAKE-SHALHOUB; title: Encountering democratic opposition; title: Separating the sheep from the goats: the United Kingdom's National Registration Program and social sorting in the pre-electronic era / SCOTT THOMPSON; title: The United Kingdom identity card scheme: shifting motivations, static technologies / DAVID WILLS; title: The politics of Australia's "access card" / DEAN WILSON; title: The INES biometric card and the politics of national identity assignment in France / PIERRE PIAZZA AND LAURENT LANIEL; title: The US real ID act and the securitization of identity / KELLY GATES; title: Toward a national ID card for Canada? External drivers and internal complexities / ANDREW CLEMENT, KRISTA BOA, SIMON DAVIES AND GUS HOSEIN; title: Transnational regimes; title: ICAO and the biometric RFID passport: history and analysis / JEFFREY STANTON; title: Another piece of Europe in your pocket: the European health insurance card / WILLEM MAAS.