دانلود کتاب Biometric State: The Global Politics Of Identification And Surveillance In South Africa, 1850 To The Present

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Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title page......Page 5
Copyright information......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Table of contents......Page 9
List of figures......Page 10
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: the global biometric arena......Page 15
The problem of the state......Page 16
A new state......Page 22
Biometrics......Page 25
The South African story......Page 33
1 Science of empire: the South African origins and objects of Galtonian eugenics......Page 41
Galton’s world......Page 42
Humanitarian upheaval......Page 51
Slavery and flogging......Page 60
Africans and the Athenaeum......Page 63
Statistical revolution......Page 66
Normal racism......Page 70
2 Asiatic despotism: Edward Henry on the Witwatersrand......Page 77
Scientific identification......Page 81
Drink, gold and passes......Page 84
Asiatic despotism......Page 97
Conclusions......Page 101
3 Gandhi’s biometric entanglement: fingerprints, satyagraha and the global politics of Hind Swaraj......Page 104
Thumb-printing......Page 107
Scientific thumbs......Page 110
Humbled will your manhood be......Page 116
Scientific fingers......Page 119
Rejecting the soulless machine......Page 122
Conclusions......Page 127
4 No will to know: biometric registration and the limited curiosity of the gatekeeper state......Page 129
A progressive deviation......Page 131
Advance or retreat......Page 137
Retrenchment......Page 142
The public health challenge......Page 143
Conclusions......Page 148
5 Verwoerd’s bureau of proof: the Apartheid Bewysburo and the end of documentary government......Page 152
Blueprint for the Dompas......Page 153
Implementing the plan......Page 155
Issuing the books......Page 157
Problems......Page 161
Crisis......Page 164
Catastrophe......Page 167
Consequences......Page 171
Conclusions......Page 174
6 Galtonian reversal: apartheid and the making of biometric citizenship......Page 178
The Population Registration Act......Page 182
The Book of Life......Page 185
White sacrifice......Page 189
Biometric banking in the Bantustans......Page 195
The Child Support Grant......Page 202
Comparisons and conclusions......Page 207
Epilogue: empire and the mimetic fantasy......Page 210
Imperial progressivism......Page 219
Conclusion......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 233
Index......Page 263