Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and

This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of

In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa ‘from below,’ asking what this means for the r

A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.

This book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies&—such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting&—that have come to pervade