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Dr Ruppert is a research fellow with the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University.

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The census: more than just a snapshotEvelyn Ruppert

By Dr Evelyn Ruppert (The Open University)

18 March 2011

The UK is home to a third of a million Jedi Knights. Dr Evelyn Ruppert explores how the last census discovered them - and how...  Read more : The census: more than just a snapshot

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Dawn of the digital census

By Dr Evelyn Ruppert (The Open University)

03 March 2011

With online returns for the UK's 2011 census opening tomorrow, Dr Ruppert, research fellow with the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC), explores...  Read more : Dawn of the digital census

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Ruppert, Evelyn (2013). The Governmental Topologies of Database Devices. Theory, Culture & Society (In press).

Ruppert, Evelyn and Savage, Mike (2012). Transactional politics. Sociological Review Monograph Series (In press).

Ruppert, Evelyn (2012). Category. In: Lury, Celia and Wakeford, Nina eds. Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social. CRESC. Routledge, (In press).

Ruppert, Evelyn (2012). Seeing population: census and surveillance by numbers. In: Ball, Kirstie; Haggerty, Kevin and Lyon, David eds. Routledge International Handbook of Surveillance Studies. Routledge, (In press).

Ruppert, Evelyn (2011). Population Objects: Interpassive Subjects. Sociology, 45(2), pp. 218–233.

Ruppert, Evelyn (2011). Shaping good cities and citizens. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Ruppert, Evelyn (2010). Making Populations: From Censuses to Metrics. In: Hempel, Leon; Krasmann, Susanne and Bröckling, Ulrich eds. Sichtbarkeitsregime: Überwachung, Sicherheit Und Privatheit Im 21. Jahrhundert. Leviathan Sonderheft Special Issue (25). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 157–173.

Ruppert, Evelyn (2009). Becoming Peoples: ‘Counting heads in Northern wilds’. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2(1&2), pp. 11–31.

Ruppert, Evelyn (2008). 'I is; therefore I am': The Census as Practice of Double Identification. Sociological Research Online, 13(4),

Ruppert, Evelyn S. (2007). Producing Population. ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), Milton Keynes, UK.

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Dawn of the digital census

Comment posted by kp4939

14 Mar 2011

Although I appreciate that the government may use the census to gather population information, overall I disagree that the census is needed for a number of reasons. 1. The government has a habit of... Read more : Dawn of the digital census

Dawn of the digital census

Comment posted by etrd3

05 Mar 2011

The government surely has a duty to serve the population and so needs to have up-to-date, accurate, and relevant information about that population. The present proposals would seem to be potentially... Read more : Dawn of the digital census

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Dr Ruppert is a research fellow with the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University. CRESC is a collaboration between the Open University and the University of Manchester (http://www.cresc.ac.uk/).  Dr Ruppert’s project, ‘The Last Census’ is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).  

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