Keith Breckenridge
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"The measure of mistrust: African artisanal gold mining and the geopolitics of the barbarous relic." Available at SSRN 4656987 (In Press).
"Foreword." In WITS: The Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and its Precursors 1896-1939. Wits University Press, 2022.
"Documentary government and mathematical identification : On the theoretical significance of African biometric government." In Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self, edited by Séverine Awenengo Dalberto and Richard Banégas, 49-64. Routledge, 2021.
"Intellectual and cultural work in times of austerity: Introduction." Africa 91 (2021): 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 51, no. 3 (2020): 921-935.
"South Africa’s COVID-19 Tracing Database: Risks and rewards of which doctors should be aware." South African Medical Journal 110 (2020).
"The failure of the “single source of truth about Kenyans” : the National Digital Registry System, collateral mysteries and the Safaricom monopoly." African Studies 78, no. 1 (2019).
"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 42, no. 3 (2019): 5.
"Chapter 10 Hopeless entanglement : The short history of the academic humanities in South Africa." In The {Changing} {Face} of {Higher} {Education} : {Is} {There} an {International} {Crisis} in the {Humanities}?, edited by Dennis A. Ahlburg, 175-196., 2018.
"État documentaire et identification mathématique : la dimension théorique du gouvernement biométrique africain." Politique Africaine, no. 152 (2018): 31-48.
"État documentaire et identification mathématique : la dimension théorique du gouvernement biométrique africain." Politique africaine n° 152 (2018): 31-49.
"Confronting African Histories of Technology A Conversation with Keith Breckenridge and Gabrielle Hecht." Radical History Review, no. 127 (2017): 87-102.
"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.
"Conspicuous disease: The surveillance of silicosis in South Africa, 1910-1970." American Journal of Industrial Medicine 58 (2015): 15-22.
"Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa." American Historical Review 120, no. 4 (2015): 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 40 (2014): 225-240.
"Marikana and the limits of biopolitics: themes in the recent scholarship of South African mining." Africa 84, no. 1 (2014): 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 40, no. 3 (2014): 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, 357-383. Vol. 182. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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, 1-38. Oxford University Press, 2012.
"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.
"Gandhi's Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj." Public Culture 23, no. 2 (2011): 331-348.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Power without Knowledge: Three Nineteenth Century Colonialisms in South Africa." Journal of Natal and Zulu History 26 (2008): 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 57 (2007): 228-243.
"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.
"The Biometric State: The promise and peril of digital government in the New South Africa." Journal of Southern African Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 267-282.
"Verwoerd's Bureau of Proof: Total Information in the Making of Apartheid." History Workshop Journal 59 (2005): 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 65 (2004): 26-49.
"The allure of violence: men, race and masculinity on the South African goldmines, 1900Â1950." Journal of Southern African Studies 24, no. 4 (1998): 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 40, no. 1 (1998): 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 36, no. 2 (1995): 271-304.