12.november.2008
The School of Development Studies invites you to a seminar by Professor Keith Breckenridge from the History Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The seminar is entitled “The Antibank and the post-Apartheid Welfare State: Net1 / Aplitec and the politics of biometric standards in the evolution of the Home Affairs National Identification System.”
Date: Wednesday November 12, 2008
Time: 12h30 - 14h00
Venue: School of Development Studies Seminar, Room F213, MTB, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
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Keith Breckenridge is a historian of South Africa, and a specialist on the history of the relationship between the gold mining industry and the state. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern. For the last five years he has been writing a book tracing South Africa's special history as a laboratory for trans-Atlantic progressivism's century-long effort to refashion modern society around a universal biometric register. Different pieces of this story have been published in History Workshop, JSAS and a recent anthology edited by David Lyon and Colin Bennett.