Making Populations: From Censuses to Metrics
Making Populations: From Censuses to Metrics
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人口统计：从人口普查到指标
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2010
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E. Ruppert
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E. Ruppert
人口和地址登记、身份证、生物识别签证和护照等身份识别做法以及行政数据的合并正在迅速成为欧盟政府做法的一部分。本文探讨了这些做法是如何被推进在英国建设和了解整个人口的管理和政府的对象的目的。的论点是，由识别实践汇编的主题的知识构成“人口指标”，不同的测量对象，如传记，生物特征和交易数据。人口指标也用于指组合、匹配、组装和重新组装指标以识别“新”人口的做法。虽然身份识别做法引起了人们对隐私或监视的担忧，但人口指标突出了它们的总体影响，并提出了关于我们如何被了解和管理的问题。本文提出了其中的一些问题，并建议人口指标开辟了一个新的人口政治。
Identification practices such as population and address registers, identity cards, biometric visas and passports, and the joining up of administrative data are rapidly becoming part of government practices in the EU. The paper investigates how these practices are being advanced in the UK for the purposes of constructing and knowing whole populations as objects of management and government. The argument is developed that the knowledge of subjects compiled by identification practices constitutes ‘population metrics,’ different measurements of subjects such as biographical, biometric and transactional data. Population metrics is also used to refer to the practice of combining, matching, assembling and reassembling metrics to identify ‘new’ populations. While identification practices raise concerns about privacy or surveillance, population metrics bring to the fore their totalizing effects, and raises questions about how we are known and governed. The paper poses some of these questions and suggests that population metrics open up a new politics of population.