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

Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand
Bok · Engelsk · 2014

Omfang	XI, 252 sider
Opplysninger	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.
Emner	Biometric identification - Government policy - History - South Africa Biometric identification - Political aspects - History - South Africa Citizenship - History - South Africa Biometri Vis mer... Eugenikk : HUME20426 Medborgerskap : HUME26826
Geografisk emneord	South Africa - Politics and government . - Sør-Afrika (Område) : HUME01643
Dewey	323.44830968
ISBN	9781107077843. - 9781107434899