Table of Contents:
List of contributors;
Preface and acknowledgements;
Part 1: Setting the Scene;
1. Playing the ID card: Understanding the significance of identity Card Systems David Lyon and Colin Bennett;
2. Governing by Identity Louise Amoore;
Part 2: Colonial Legacies;
3. The elusive panopticon: The HANIS project and the politics of standards in South Africa Keith Breckenridge;
4. China’s second generation national Identity Card: Merging culture, industry, and technology for authentication, classification, and surveillance Cheryl L. Brown;
5. Hong Kong’s ‘smart’ ID card: Designed to be out of control Graham Greenleaf;
6. A tale of the colonial age, or the banner of new tyranny? National identification Card systems in Japan Midori Ogasawara;
7. India’s new ID card: Fuzzy logics, double meanings and ethnic ambiguities Taha Mehmood;
8. Population ID card systems in the Middle East: The case of the UAE Zeinab Karake Shalhoub;
Part 3: Encountering Democratic Opposition;
9. Separating the Sheep from the Goats: The United Kingdom’s National Registration Program and social sorting in the pre-electronic era Scott Thompson;
10. The United Kingdom identity Card scheme: Shifting motivations, static technologies David Wills;
11. The politics of Australia’s "Access Card" Dean Wilson;
12. The INES biometric card and the politics of national identity assignment in France Laurent. Laniel and Pierre Piazza;
13. The US Real ID Act and the securitization of identity Kelly Gates;
14. Toward a national ID card for Canada? External drivers and internal complexities Andrew Clement, Krista Boa, Simon Davis and Gus Hosein;
Part 4: Transnational Regimes;
15. ICAO and the biometric RFID passport: History and analysis Jeffrey Stanton;
16. Another piece of Europe in your pocket: The European Health Insurance Card Willem Maas;
Index.