The Power of Identity Documents
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2022-12-15
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en
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The passport is both very intimate to its bearer and highly integrated into the state's bureaucratic apparatus. This combination of intimate connection and integration into the working of state bureaucracy makes passports highly valuable for the development and functioning of the modern state. Simultaneously, passports have a significant influence on their bearers. Through analyzing passports and their history, the present thesis examines, from the perspective of power, the broad category of objects to which passports and, for instance, ID cards belong. The conceptualization of the broad category of objects allows for analyzing new phenomena. This will be demonstrated by applying the conceptualization to the recent case of digitalization of passports.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen