Description: Further DetailsTitle: Biometric StateCondition: NewSubtitle: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the PresentEAN: 9781107434899ISBN: 9781107434899Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/20/2016Description: 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 systems being developed in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a century-long history of biometric government in South Africa, with the South African experience of centralized fingerprint identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particularly the triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and Britain, established the special South African obsession with biometric government, and shaped the international politics that developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He also examines the political effects of biometric registration systems, revealing their consequences for the basic workings of the institutions of democracy and authoritarianism.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 400gAuthor: Keith BreckenridgeGenre: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Biometric State
Title: Biometric State
Subtitle: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South A
EAN: 9781107434899
ISBN: 9781107434899
Release Date: 10/20/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 266 Pages
Publication Name: Biometric State : The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Anthropology / Physical, History, Civics & Citizenship, World / African
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Keith Breckenridge
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
