The elusive panopticon: The HANIS project and the politics of standards in South Africa

Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 39-56

  Breckenridge, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 84921299201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203927137     Document Type: Chapter

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