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Author:

Breckenridge, Keith, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004106107

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Citizenship--South Africa--History.
Biometric identification--History.--South Africa--History.
Biometric identification--History.--South Africa--History.
South Africa--Politics and government--19th century.
South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.
Biometrie.
Politische Kontrolle.
Südafrika.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1107434890
9781107434899
1107077842
9781107077843

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881387739

LCCN:

2014022526

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)