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Documentary government and mathematical identification : On the theoretical significance of African biometric government. In: Dalberto SAwenengo, Banégas R, editors. Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self. Routledge; 2021. 4. p. 49-64p.
Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity: Introduction. Africa. 2021;91:517-531.
Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years. Economy and Society. 2021.
What happened to the theory of African capitalism? Economy and Society. 2021:9-35.
Capitalism without Surveillance? Development and Change. 2020;51(3):921-935.
South Africa’s COVID-19 Tracing Database: Risks and rewards of which doctors should be aware. South African Medical Journal. 2020;110.
The failure of the “single source of truth about Kenyans” : the National Digital Registry System, collateral mysteries and the Safaricom monopoly. African Studies. 2019;78(1).
The global ambitions of the biometric anti-bank : Net1, lockin and the technologies of African financialization. International Review of Applied Economics. 2019.
Lineaments of Biopower: The Bureaucratic and Technological Paradoxes of Aadhaar. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 2019;42(3):5.
Chapter 10 Hopeless entanglement : The short history of the academic humanities in South Africa. In: Ahlburg DA, editor. The {Changing} {Face} of {Higher} {Education} : {Is} {There} an {International} {Crisis} in the {Humanities}?; 2018. 1. p. 175-196p.
État documentaire et identification mathématique : la dimension théorique du gouvernement biométrique africain. Politique Africaine. 2018;(152):31-48.
État documentaire et identification mathématique : la dimension théorique du gouvernement biométrique africain. Politique africaine. 2018;n° 152:31-49.
Confronting African Histories of Technology A Conversation with Keith Breckenridge and Gabrielle Hecht. Radical History Review. 2017;(127):87-102.
African Progressivism, Land and Law : Rereading Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa. In: Peterson B, Willan B, Remmington J, editors. Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa : Past and present. Johannesburg: Wits University Press; 2016.
Conspicuous disease: The surveillance of silicosis in South Africa, 1910-1970. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2015;58:15-22.
Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa. American Historical Review. 2015;120(4):1253-1266.
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2014.
The Book of Life: The South African Population Register and the Invention of Racial Descent, 1950–1980. Kronos. 2014;40:225-240.
Marikana and the limits of biopolitics: themes in the recent scholarship of South African mining. Africa. 2014;84(1):151-161.
The Politics of the Parallel Archive: Digital Imperialism and the Future of Record-Keeping in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Journal of Southern African Studies. 2014;40(3):499-519.
14 No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa. In: Proceedings of the British Academy. Vol 182. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. 3. p. 357-383p.
Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History. Oxford University Press; 2012.
Registration and Recognition: the Infrastructure of Personhood in World History. In: Registration and Recognition: Documenting the person in World History. Oxford University Press; 2012. 1. p. 1-38p.
Capitaliser sur les pauvres: les enjeux de l’adoption de services financiers biométriques au Nigeria. In: Ceyhan A, Piazza P, editors. L’identification Biométrique: Champs, Acteurs, Enjeux Et Controverses. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme; 2011.
Gandhi's Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj. Public Culture. 2011;23(2):331-348.
Special Rights in Property: Why Modern African Economies are Dependent on Mineral Resources. In: Bayly CA, Rao V, Szreter S, Woolcock M, editors. History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue. Manchester: Manchester University Press; 2011.
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. 2010;80(4):642-662.
The Elusive Panopticon: The HANIS Project and the Politics of Standards in South Africa. In: Bennett C, Lyon D, editors. Playing the ID card: Surveillance, security and identity in global perspective. London: Routledge; 2008. 3. p. 39-56p.
Power without Knowledge: Three Nineteenth Century Colonialisms in South Africa. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 2008;26:2-30.
Fighting for a White South Africa: White working-class racism and the 1922 Rand Revolt The Rand Revolt: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa, Jeremy Krikler: book review. South African Historical Journal. 2007;57:228-243.
Reasons for writing: African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth century South Africa. In: Barber K, editor. Africa's Hidden Histories: everyday literacy and making the self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; 2006.
The Biometric State: The promise and peril of digital government in the New South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies. 2005;31(2):267-282.
Verwoerd's Bureau of Proof: Total Information in the Making of Apartheid. History Workshop Journal. 2005;59:83-109.
Promiscuous Method: The Historiographical Effects of the Search for the Rural Origins of the Urban Working Class in South Africa. International Labor and Working-Class History. 2004;65:26-49.
The allure of violence: men, race and masculinity on the South African goldmines, 1900Â1950. Journal of Southern African Studies. 1998;24(4):669-693.
"We Must Speak for Ourselves": The Rise and Fall of a Public Sphere on the South African GoldMines, 1920 to 1931. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 1998;40(1):71-108.
'Money with Dignity': Migrants, Minelords and the Cultural Politics of the South African Gold Standard Crisis, 1920-33. The Journal of African History. 1995;36(2):271-304.