The biometric imaginary : standardization & objectivity in post-apartheid welfare
| dc.contributor.author | Donovan, Kevin P. | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-01T13:58:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-01T13:58:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-12-22 | |
| 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, Kevin P. (2013). <i>The biometric imaginary : standardization & objectivity in post-apartheid welfare</i> (CSSR Working Paper Series ; 335). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Survey Unit. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7908 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Donovan, Kevin P. <i>The biometric imaginary : standardization & objectivity in post-apartheid welfare.</i> CSSR Working Paper Series ; 335. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Survey Unit, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7908 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Donovan, K.P. 2014. The Biometric Imaginary: Standardization & Objectivity in Post-Apartheid Welfare. CSSR Working Paper No. 335. Cape Town: Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-77011-320-6 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Donovan, Kevin P. 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 - 2013-12-22 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Biometric identification KW - Fingerprints--Identification LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 SM - 978-1-77011-320-6 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/11427/7908 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7908 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Donovan Kevin P. The biometric imaginary : standardization & objectivity in post-apartheid welfare. 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7908 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Social Survey Unit | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | CSSR Working Paper Series ; 335 | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | Biometric identification | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Fingerprints--Identification | 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 | Working paper | en_ZA |