Biometric state : the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present /

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book, Keith Breckenridge traces how the origins of the syst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breckenridge, Keith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1800-1999
Citizenship > South Africa > History.
Biometric identification > Government policy > South Africa > History.
Biometric identification > Political aspects > South Africa > History.
Identification biométrique > Politique gouvernementale > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
Identification biométrique > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Citizenship.
Politics and government.
Biometrie
Politische Kontrolle
Biometrisk identifikation > historia.
Politiska förhållanden > historia.
South Africa > Politics and government > 19th century.
South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century.
Afrique du Sud > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siècle.
Afrique du Sud > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
South Africa.
Südafrika > Kontinent
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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