Keith Breckenridge

1.4k total citations
33 papers, 559 citations indexed

About

Keith Breckenridge is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith Breckenridge has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 559 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Anthropology and 4 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Keith Breckenridge's work include South African History and Culture (14 papers), African history and culture studies (9 papers) and African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 papers). Keith Breckenridge is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (14 papers), African history and culture studies (9 papers) and African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 papers). Keith Breckenridge collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Keith Breckenridge's co-authors include Simon Szreter, Deborah James, Martin Veller, Jonathan Klaaren, Sharon Fonn, Sofia Gruskin, Derek Peterson and Anne Pitcher and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The American Historical Review and Development and Change.

In The Last Decade

Keith Breckenridge

30 papers receiving 453 citations

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Rights and Ethics in Biometric Population Registration: Mapping the Limits of Digital Recognition and the Drivers of Exclusion 2023 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·(unknown), Keith Breckenridge, Sofia Gruskin, Jonathan Klaaren	0
2	What happened to the theory of African capitalism? 2021 ·Economy and Society ·Keith Breckenridge	11
3	Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years 2021 ·Economy and Society ·Keith Breckenridge, Deborah James	6
4	Capitalism without Surveillance? 2020 ·Development and Change ·Keith Breckenridge	8
5	South Africa's COVID-19 Tracing Database: Risks and rewards of which doctors should be aware. 2020 ·South African Medical Journal ·Jonathan Klaaren, Keith Breckenridge, (unknown), Sharon Fonn, Martin Veller	4
6	État documentaire et identification mathématique : la dimension théorique du gouvernement biométrique africain 2019 ·Politique africaine ·Keith Breckenridge, (unknown), (unknown)	2
7	Lineaments of Biopower: The Bureaucratic and Technological Paradoxes of Aadhaar 2019 ·South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies ·Keith Breckenridge	7
8	Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa 2015 ·The American Historical Review ·Keith Breckenridge	2
9	Flesh Made Words: Fingerprinting and the Fantasy of Documentary Panopticism, 1900-1930 2014 ·Keith Breckenridge	1
10	MARIKANA AND THE LIMITS OF BIOPOLITICS: THEMES IN THE RECENT SCHOLARSHIP OF SOUTH AFRICAN MINING 2014 ·Africa ·Keith Breckenridge	6
11	Biometric State 2014 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Keith Breckenridge	114
12	The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 2: 1885 to 1994 2014 ·South African Historical Journal ·Keith Breckenridge	1
13	Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present 2014 ·Keith Breckenridge	39
14	Editors' Introduction: Recognition and Registration: The Infrastructure of Personhood in World History 2012 ·Journal of Community Health ·Simon Szreter, Keith Breckenridge	8
15	Gandhi's Progressive Disillusionment: Thumbs, Fingers, and the Rejection of Scientific Modernism in Hind Swaraj 2011 ·Public Culture ·Keith Breckenridge	5
16	Verwoerd's Bureau of Proof: Total Information in the Making of Apartheid 2005 ·History Workshop Journal ·Keith Breckenridge	29
17	Promiscuous Method: The Historiographical Effects of the Search for the Rural Origins of the Urban Working Class in South Africa 2004 ·International Labor and Working-Class History ·Keith Breckenridge	5
18	“We Must Speak for Ourselves”: The Rise and Fall of a Public Sphereon the South African GoldMines, 1920 to 1931 1998 ·Comparative Studies in Society and History ·Keith Breckenridge	16
19	‘Money with Dignity’: Migrants, Minelords and the Cultural Politics of the South African Gold Standard Crisis, 1920–33 1995 ·The Journal of African History ·Keith Breckenridge	9
20	Migrancy, crime and faction fighting: the role of the Isitshozi in the development of ethnic organisations in the compounds 1990 ·Journal of Southern African Studies ·Keith Breckenridge	19

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