Keith Breckenridge

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Keith Breckenridge

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According to Wikipedia, Keith Breckenridge is a South African professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a specialist in the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, and the development of information systems such as birth, marriage and death registration and identity verification systems.

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Keith Breckenridge's Published Works

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Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present (2014) (123)
The Biometric State: The Promise and Peril of Digital Government in the New South Africa (2005) (93)
The allure of violence: men, race and masculinity on the South African goldmines, 1900–1950 (1998) (87)
Verwoerd's Bureau of Proof: Total Information in the Making of Apartheid (2005) (57)
The World's First Biometric Money: Ghana's E-Zwich and the Contemporary Influence of South African Biometrics (2010) (47)
Recognition and Registration: The Infrastructure of Personhood in World History (2012) (43)
Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History (2012) (41)
Love Letters and Amanuenses: Beginning the Cultural History of the Working Class Private Sphere in Southern Africa, 1900-1933 (2000) (32)
Migrancy, crime and faction fighting: the role of the Isitshozi in the development of ethnic organisations in the compounds (1990) (27)
“We Must Speak for Ourselves”: The Rise and Fall of a Public Sphereon the South African GoldMines, 1920 to 1931 (1998) (21)
‘Money with Dignity’: Migrants, Minelords and the Cultural Politics of the South African Gold Standard Crisis, 1920–33 (1995) (17)
The Politics of the Parallel Archive: Digital Imperialism and the Future of Record-Keeping in the Age of Digital Reproduction (2014) (14)
The failure of the ‘single source of truth about Kenyans’: The NDRS, collateral mysteries and the Safaricom monopoly (2018) (14)
Power Without Knowledge: Three Nineteenth Century Colonialisms in South Africa (2008) (13)
MARIKANA AND THE LIMITS OF BIOPOLITICS: THEMES IN THE RECENT SCHOLARSHIP OF SOUTH AFRICAN MINING (2014) (12)
The Book of Life: The South African population register and the invention of racial descent, 1950-1980 (2014) (11)
Fighting for a White South Africa: White Working-Class Racism and the 1922 Rand Revolt (2007) (10)
The global ambitions of the biometric anti-bank: Net1, lockin and the technologies of African financialisation (2018) (10)
No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa (2012) (9)
Promiscuous Method: The Historiographical Effects of the Search for the Rural Origins of the Urban Working Class in South Africa (2004) (9)
What happened to the theory of African capitalism? (2021) (7)
Gandhi's Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj (2011) (6)
South Africa's COVID-19 Tracing Database: Risks and rewards of which doctors should be aware. (2020) (6)
Special Rights in Property: Why Modern African Economies are Dependent on Mineral Resources (2008) (5)
Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years (2021) (5)
Lineaments of Biopower: The Bureaucratic and Technological Paradoxes of Aadhaar (2019) (5)
Orality, Literacy and the Archive in the Making of Kas Maine (1997) (2)
Capitalism without Surveillance? (2020) (2)
Flesh Made Words: Fingerprinting and the Fantasy of Documentary Panopticism, 1900-1930 (2014) (2)
Documentary government and mathematical identification (2021) (1)
Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa (2015) (1)
Verwoerd’s bureau of proof (2014) (1)
Biometric State: Epilogue (2014) (1)
AFRICAN PROGRESSIVISM, LAND AND LAW:: RE-READING NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA (2016) (1)
Special rights in property (2020) (1)
AFR volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2021) (0)
Biometric State: Introduction: the global biometric arena (2014) (0)
Biometric State: Preface and acknowledgements (2014) (0)
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity (2021) (0)
Biometric State: No will to know (2014) (0)
AFR volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
AFR volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2019) (0)
Receded Tides of Empire: Aspects of the Econommic and Social History of Natal and Zululand (1995) (0)
In this issue (2010) (0)
Biometric State: Bibliography (2014) (0)
AFR volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
The cultural politics of metallic money before the South African gold standard crisis 1920-1933 (1992) (0)
Gandhi’s biometric entanglement (2014) (0)
The Banality of Crisis: New Histories of the Gold Mining Industry (1996) (0)
Biometric State: Galtonian reversal (2014) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 2: 1885 to 1994 (2014) (0)
Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe (review) (2010) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Conspicuous disease: The surveillance of silicosis in South Africa, 1910-1970. (2015) (0)
Reflections on Post-Apartheid Politics (1995) (0)
AFR volume 93 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2023) (0)
AFR volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2018) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
Biometric State: Science of empire (2014) (0)
Fingerprinting, Progressivism and Satyagraha: The South African Origins of Gandhi's Critique of Modernity (2009) (0)

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