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Biometric state : the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present / Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breckenridge, Keith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--South Africa--History.
- Citizenship.
- Biometric identification--Government policy--South Africa--History.
- Biometric identification.
- Biometric identification--Political aspects--South Africa--History.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Government policy.
- South Africa--Politics and government--19th century.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the global biometric arena
- Science of empire: the South African origins and objects of Galtonian eugenics
- Asiatic despotism: Edward Henry on the Witwatersrand
- Gandhi's biometric entanglement: fingerprints, Satyagraha and the global politics of Hind Swaraj
- No will to know: biometric registration and the limited curiosity of the gatekeeper state
- Verwoerd's bureau of proof: the apartheid bewysburo and the end of documentary government
- Galtonian reversal: apartheid and the making of biometric citizenship
- Epilogue: empire and the mimetic fantasy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107077843
- 1107077842
- 9781107434899
- 1107434890
- OCLC:
- 881387739
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