Lecture: Guest Lecture: Biometric Futures: The Infrastructure of citizenship in the aftermath of Empire - Details

Lecture: Guest Lecture: Biometric Futures: The Infrastructure of citizenship in the aftermath of Empire - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Lecture: Guest Lecture: Biometric Futures: The Infrastructure of citizenship in the aftermath of Empire
Veranstaltungsnummer BA: ETH, MA: APT/STE
Semester SS 2014
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 1
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 35
Heimat-Einrichtung Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Veranstaltungstyp Lecture in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Mittwoch, 23.04.2014 18:15 - 19:45
Art/Form BA: ETH, MA: APT/STE
Teilnehmende These lectures will examine the current plans for biometric identification and banking on the African continent in the light of the history of colonial and post-colonial practices of civil registration. Driven by local banks and international aid agencies, almost all the countries on the African continent are self-consciously adopting the South African model of identification and credit checking. This model consists of a centralised population register that is authenticated by biometrics with financial services (including credit history systems) that are privately owned, but also secured by biometrics. The turn to biometrics in part reflects the influence and capacity of South African telecommunications and banking firms (which, as a consequence of Apartheid, have long relied on biometrics) in the delivery of social welfare grants, and partly a set of arrangements, which allow European firms to use African countries as testing laboratories for their biometric products. These lectures will examine the politics of this moment, asking, in particular, what form of citizenship is likely to emerge from it.
Voraussetzungen Recommended Reading: Breckenridge, Keith 2005. The Biometric State: The Promise and Peril of Digital Government in the New South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (2): 267-282.
Lernorganisation 23.04.2014 Lecture 1: Technological Inertia: The politics of privacy and the failure of biometric government in the West

30.04.2014 Lecture 2: No Will to Know: Biometric Civil Registration and the racial limits of bureaucratic curiosity under colonial rule

18.06.2014 Lecture 3: The elusive digital panopticon: The South African HANIS project and the politics of standards

25.06.2014 Lecture 4: Postcolonial citizenship: Nigeria's National Identity Management Centre and the Mastercard ID
Leistungsnachweis Studienleistung: Durch die Teilnahme an diesem Kurs können Studienleistungen (WL 15 Stunden) für folgende Kurse erworben werden:
- “Travelling Technologies” (MA: APT/STE), Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg
- “Individualität und Kollaboration” (MA: APT/STE), Dr. Carsten Wergin
- „Technik, Gesellschaft und Staat in Afrika” (BA: ETH), Norman Schräpel, M.A.
Modulleistung: In diesem Kurs kann keine Modulleistung erworben werden.
Studiengänge (für) BA: ETH, MA: APT/STE
SWS 2
Sonstiges Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet

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Mittwoch, 23.04.2014 18:15 - 19:45
Mittwoch, 30.04.2014 18:15 - 19:45
Mittwoch, 18.06.2014 18:15 - 19:45
Mittwoch, 25.06.2014 18:15 - 19:45

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These lectures will examine the current plans for biometric identification and banking on the African continent in the light of the history of colonial and post-colonial practices of civil registration. Driven by local banks and international aid agencies, almost all the countries on the African continent are self-consciously adopting the South African model of identification and credit checking. This model consists of a centralised population register that is authenticated by biometrics with financial services (including credit history systems) that are privately owned, but also secured by biometrics. The turn to biometrics in part reflects the influence and capacity of South African telecommunications and banking firms (which, as a consequence of Apartheid, have long relied on biometrics) in the delivery of social welfare grants, and partly a set of arrangements, which allow European firms to use African countries as testing laboratories for their biometric products. These lectures will examine the politics of this moment, asking, in particular, what form of citizenship is likely to emerge from it.