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A Paper Trap. Exiles versus the Identification Police in France during the Interwar period
- Source :
- Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. People, Papers, and Practices, Ilsen About; James Brown; Gayle Lonergan. Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. People, Papers, and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.203-223, 2013, Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. People, Papers, and Practices, 9780230354388 HB, Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective ISBN: 9781349346431
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2013.
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Abstract
- Typically, an identity document appears as a portable object displaying parts of the self, as recorded and archived by public or private administrative agencies. However, rather than simply standing as a material object replicating an individual identity, it tends to become another self, detached from the body and matching an identity that has been instituted in a stable, unalterable form. This piece of paper, protected as it is by the law and a set of more or less efficient techniques, defies any alteration and can only be modified by authorized individuals.1 The legal apparatus protecting the material object is usually accompanied by a desire to ensure the recurring renewal of the ID, so that it may follow the evolution of individuals—their physical transformation, changes of residence and potential modifications of the individual’s status over time. Hence, once allocated, these documents cannot be detached from the body, and possessing this power of embodiment they act to bind the identified and the identifiers.2 The belief that gives ID papers their value as replicas is a basic foundation of trust that ties these two parties.3 All the parties involved acknowledge the ability of these artefacts to stand for an actual identity, and their relationship is built on this shared knowledge, which recognizes the secret power of ID papers.
- Subjects :
- Value (ethics)
History
business.industry
Self
Internet privacy
Interwar period
Identity (social science)
16. Peace & justice
Exil
Object (philosophy)
Police
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Identification (information)
[SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History
Law
[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences
Set (psychology)
business
[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History
Portable object
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-0-230-35438-8
978-1-349-34643-1 - ISBNs :
- 9780230354388 and 9781349346431
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. People, Papers, and Practices, Ilsen About; James Brown; Gayle Lonergan. Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. People, Papers, and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.203-223, 2013, Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. People, Papers, and Practices, 9780230354388 HB, Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective ISBN: 9781349346431
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....692059d720af00ea697d183d6e4a07ed