Bodies and borders in post-imperial Japan
A study of the coloniality of biometric power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hidefumi Nishiyama (0000-0001-5845-0459, Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120-140 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502386.2020.1788619 |
| OpenAlex | W3041678847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
In this article, I conduct a study of what may be called the coloniality of biometric power. In recent years, scholars in social sciences and humanities have shown the continuities of colonialism and racism in the politics of biometric identification. Not only are the origins of biometrics closely related to colonial governance and scientific racism, but contemporary biometric technologies also continue to carry on colonial and racial dimensions in their infrastructures and operations. Inspired by Quijano’s notion of ‘coloniality of power’ and departing from existing social and cultural studies of biometrics, the article explores how biometrics is used for the racial classification of people, the (re)production of colonial structures and subject-object relations during and after colonialism. The article focuses on the case of fingerprinting border controls and surveillance in post-imperial Japan. This particular case geographically expands the literature on the relationship between biometrics and colonialism, which has been largely centred upon European and North American contexts. It also helps to understand how one mode of racialization through biometrics is replaced by another, which empowers a new form of racial governance. Drawing on my analysis of the postwar Japanese fingerprinting system, I suggest that it is important to register different forms of racialization through biometrics as there are different forms of racialized control in different historical and geographical contexts
Biometrics · Colonialism · Computer security · Corporate governance · Political science · Politics · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Suspect Identities
Introduction “the Rot Remains”
The illegal body
Haiboku o dakishimete
Debating the “Japanese” Race in Meiji Japan
Chapter Seventeen Anatomically Speaking
Our Biometric Future
Immigration and Citizenship in Japan
Biometric State
The Korean Minority in Japan
Technocolonialism
Picturing Algorithmic Surveillance
Savage Construction and Civility Making
An act prejudicial to the occupation forces
Translating and Transforming ‘Race’
Asylum, Identity Management and Biometric Control
Borderline Japan
The European Question
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
The “migrant crisis” as racial crisis
Towards a Global Genealogy of Biopolitics
Biometrics
Discipline and Punish
Humanitarian Reason
Everybody's Got a Little Light Under the Sun
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
Discourses of race, nation and empire in pre-1945 Japan
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |