Biometric state : the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present / Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand.

By:

Breckenridge, Keith [author.]

Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: xi, 252 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9781107434899 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

323.44830968 23

LOC classification:

JQ1983 .B74 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.

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