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2022
Breckenridge, Keith. "Foreword." In WITS: The Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and its Precursors 1896-1939. Wits University Press, 2022.
2016
Breckenridge, Keith. "African Progressivism, Land and Law : Rereading Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa." In Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa : Past and present, edited by Bhekizizwe Peterson, Brian Willan and Janet Remmington. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016.
2012
Breckenridge, Keith. "14 No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa." In Proceedings of the British Academy, 357-383. Vol. 182. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Breckenridge, Keith, and Simon Szreter. Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Szreter, Simon, and Keith Breckenridge. "Registration and Recognition: the Infrastructure of Personhood in World History." In Registration and Recognition: Documenting the person in World History, 1-38. Oxford University Press, 2012.
2011
Breckenridge, Keith. "Capitaliser sur les pauvres: les enjeux de l’adoption de services financiers biométriques au Nigeria." In L’identification Biométrique: Champs, Acteurs, Enjeux Et Controverses, edited by Ayse Ceyhan and Pierre Piazza. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2011.
Breckenridge, Keith. "Gandhi's Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj." Public Culture 23, no. 2 (2011): 331-348.
Breckenridge, Keith. "Special Rights in Property: Why Modern African Economies are Dependent on Mineral Resources." In History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue, edited by C. A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.
2010
Breckenridge, Keith. "The world's first biometric money: Ghana's e-Zwich and the contemporary influence of South African biometrics." Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute 80, no. 4 (2010): 642-662.
2008
Breckenridge, Keith. "The Elusive Panopticon: The HANIS Project and the Politics of Standards in South Africa." In Playing the ID card: Surveillance, security and identity in global perspective, edited by Colin Bennett and David Lyon, 39-56. London: Routledge, 2008.
Breckenridge, Keith. "Power without Knowledge: Three Nineteenth Century Colonialisms in South Africa." Journal of Natal and Zulu History 26 (2008): 2-30.
2006
Breckenridge, Keith. "Reasons for writing: African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth century South Africa." In Africa's Hidden Histories: everyday literacy and making the self, edited by Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.