TY - JOUR
T1 - The uncounted
T2 - Citizenship and exclusion in the Israeli census of 1948
AU - Leibler, Anat
AU - Breslau, Daniel
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - Previous research on official statistics, and the national census, has established the role of these practices in the construction of modern political institutions, particularly the state and citizenship. Studies have described the use of statistics in transforming a territorial population into a citizenry, but have not examined the role of the census in the exclusion that is an essential element in the constitution of citizenship. Based on a case study of the Israeli national census and registration of 1948, we discuss the use of this census to legitimate an ethnic/national exclusion at the heart of Israeli citizenship. It is this task that explains the peculiar features of our case: a census carried out in wartime, under a 7-hour general curfew.
AB - Previous research on official statistics, and the national census, has established the role of these practices in the construction of modern political institutions, particularly the state and citizenship. Studies have described the use of statistics in transforming a territorial population into a citizenry, but have not examined the role of the census in the exclusion that is an essential element in the constitution of citizenship. Based on a case study of the Israeli national census and registration of 1948, we discuss the use of this census to legitimate an ethnic/national exclusion at the heart of Israeli citizenship. It is this task that explains the peculiar features of our case: a census carried out in wartime, under a 7-hour general curfew.
KW - Census
KW - Citizenship
KW - Israel
KW - Nationalism
KW - Palestine
KW - Statistics
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U2 - 10.1080/01419870500158919
DO - 10.1080/01419870500158919
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AN - SCOPUS:23144454085
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 28
SP - 880
EP - 902
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 5
ER -