| Title | Biometric state: the global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Authors | Breckenridge, Keith |
| Number of Pages | 252 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| City | New York |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-107-07784-3 978-1-107-43489-9 |
| Call Number | JQ1983 .B74 2014 |
| Notes | '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\n - Angela Okune'
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| Short Title | Biometric state |
