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Biometric State
Taschenbuch von Keith Breckenridge
Sprache: Englisch

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A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
Über den Autor
Keith Breckenridge is an historian and the deputy director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published widely on the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems. His writing on biometrics has appeared in Africa, History Workshop, the Journal of Southern African Studies, Public Culture and some of the most influential comparative anthologies on systems of identification. In 2012 he co-edited Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History, with Simon Szreter, a volume of essays for the British Academy examining the workings and failures of civil registration in twenty different regions and periods around the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: the global biometric arena; 1. Science of empire: the South African origins and objects of Galtonian eugenics; 2. Asiatic despotism: Edward Henry on the Witwatersrand; 3. Gandhi's biometric entanglement: fingerprints, Satyagraha and the global politics of Hind Swaraj; 4. No will to know: biometric registration and the limited curiosity of the gatekeeper state; 5. Verwoerd's bureau of proof: the Apartheid Bewysburo and the end of documentary government; 6. Galtonian reversal: apartheid and the making of biometric citizenship; Epilogue: empire and the mimetic fantasy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 266
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781107434899
ISBN-10: 1107434890
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Breckenridge, Keith
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Keith Breckenridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2016
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
preigu-id: 103507925
Über den Autor
Keith Breckenridge is an historian and the deputy director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published widely on the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, the state and the development of information systems. His writing on biometrics has appeared in Africa, History Workshop, the Journal of Southern African Studies, Public Culture and some of the most influential comparative anthologies on systems of identification. In 2012 he co-edited Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History, with Simon Szreter, a volume of essays for the British Academy examining the workings and failures of civil registration in twenty different regions and periods around the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: the global biometric arena; 1. Science of empire: the South African origins and objects of Galtonian eugenics; 2. Asiatic despotism: Edward Henry on the Witwatersrand; 3. Gandhi's biometric entanglement: fingerprints, Satyagraha and the global politics of Hind Swaraj; 4. No will to know: biometric registration and the limited curiosity of the gatekeeper state; 5. Verwoerd's bureau of proof: the Apartheid Bewysburo and the end of documentary government; 6. Galtonian reversal: apartheid and the making of biometric citizenship; Epilogue: empire and the mimetic fantasy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 266
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781107434899
ISBN-10: 1107434890
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Breckenridge, Keith
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Keith Breckenridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2016
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
preigu-id: 103507925
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