The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare
| dc.contributor.author | Donovan, Kevin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-05T09:20:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-05T09:20:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-05T07:25:17Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Starting in March 2012, the South African government engaged in a massive effort of citizen registration that continued for more than a year. Nearly 19 million social welfare beneficiaries enrolled in a novel biometric identification scheme that uses fingerprints and voice recognition to authenticate social grant recipients. This paper seeks to understand the meaning of biometric technology in post-apartheid South African welfare through a study of the bureaucratic and policy elite's motivation for this undertaking. It suggests that biometric technology was conceived of and implemented as the most recent in a series of institutional, infrastructural, and policy reforms that seek to deliver welfare in a standardized and objective manner. This technopolitical imaginary has contributed to both the strengths and weaknesses of today's centralized welfare state. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Donovan, K. (2013). <i>The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19441 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Donovan, Kevin <i>The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19441 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Donovan, K. P. (2013). The biometric imaginary: standardization & objectivity in post-apartheid welfare. University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Donovan, Kevin AB - Starting in March 2012, the South African government engaged in a massive effort of citizen registration that continued for more than a year. Nearly 19 million social welfare beneficiaries enrolled in a novel biometric identification scheme that uses fingerprints and voice recognition to authenticate social grant recipients. This paper seeks to understand the meaning of biometric technology in post-apartheid South African welfare through a study of the bureaucratic and policy elite's motivation for this undertaking. It suggests that biometric technology was conceived of and implemented as the most recent in a series of institutional, infrastructural, and policy reforms that seek to deliver welfare in a standardized and objective manner. This technopolitical imaginary has contributed to both the strengths and weaknesses of today's centralized welfare state. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare TI - The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19441 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19441 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Donovan K. The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare. 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19441 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |