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Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present

Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present

January 13, 2015 00:28:53

Guests: Breckenridge, Keith

Host: Alegi, Peter
Limb, Peter

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Episode 088

Digital African Studies with Keith Breckenridge

Keith Breckenridge (WISER) on the current state of digital Southern African Studies; the politics, funding, and ethics of international partnerships in digital projects; and his new book Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. Follow Keith on Twitter: @BreckenridgeKD

Part I of a series on digital African studies.

00:00:00 - 00:02:35 Introduction
00:02:40 - 00:05:33 The State of Digital South African Studies
00:05:33 - 00:07:42 Politics of Digitization
00:07:43 - 00:10:02 Digitization and South African Academia
00:10:03 - 00:15:53 Partnerships between South African and American Academia
00:15:53 - 00:17:17 Private Funding and Digitization
00:17:18 - 00:23:32 The South African Biometric State
00:23:33 - 00:27:42 America, Europe, and the Biometric Sate
00:27:43 - 00:28:53 Outro

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Breckenridge, Keith, Peter Alegi, and Peter Limb. "Digital African Studies with Keith Breckenridge". Africa Past and Present, January 13, 2015. https://afripod.aodl.org/fullPodcast/episode=088/.