The Truth of the Error: Making Identity and Security through Biometric Discrimination

Elida Jacobsen (PRIO) & Ursula Rao (SFB 1199 & Leipzig U)

Publication Date

January 2018

Publisher

Durham/London: Duke University Press

Language

English

Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Bodies as Evidence. Security, Knowledge, and Power

Editors

Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao and Nils Zurawski

Pages

24–42

Additional Information

Biographical Note

Prof. Dr. Ursula Rao ( SFB 1199 & Leipzig University)

Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. Her research explores questions of politics and governance in India, with a specific focus on urban dynamics. Currently, she is involved in several research projects about the social consequences of biometric technology and e-governance. How do the new tools and techniques of governing impact human relations and state-citizens interactions? Other fields of interests include question of urban citizenship and social justice, as well as journalistic practices, ritual theory and urban Hinduism.

Before joining the University of Leipzig Ursula Rao held academic positions at the University of Heidelberg (1999-2002), the University of Halle (2002-2006) and the University of New South Wales, Sydney (2007-2012).