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This chapter concentrates on one of many documents used by the State of Hawaiʻi for calculating blood quantum of Hawaiians. The author provides an analysis on the historical constitution and logic of blood quantum, race, and identity/identification to draw out the forgotten and repressed histories and buried epistemologies of ancestral identity that are at the heart of the document’s representation. The author brings to her reading theories on technologies of government with contemporary Hawaiian intellectual perspectives on ancestral identity.
The new political and intellectual technologies of government – whose organizational form is the bureau – thus allowed the life and labor of national populations to be known in a form that opened them to political calculation and administrative intervention(Hunter 1996, p. 154).
People are not governed in relation to their individuality but as members of populations . The embodied individual is of interest to governments insofar as the individual can be indentified, categorized and recognized as a member of a population (Ruppert 2011, p. 218).
What served in place of the photograph, before the camera’s invention? The expected answer is the engraving, the drawing, the painting. The more revealing answer might be: memory (Berger 1980, p. 54).
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Tavares, H.M. (2016). Troubling Formations. In: Pedagogies of the Image. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7619-6_5
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