Certifications of citizenship: reflections through an African lens
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Certifications of citizenship: reflections through an African lens. / Hammar, Amanda.
In: Contemporary South Asia, 03.04.2018, p. 1-9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Certifications of citizenship: reflections through an African lens
AU - Hammar, Amanda
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - A focus on certifications of citizenship as a range of inter-related practices of identity classification, categorisation, registration and validation, provides productive opportunities to explore the many ways that different authorities and/or different citizens engage with both the meaning and materiality of identity documents. At the heart of such practices is a complex politics of recognition that in turn is linked to the political economies of certification and of certificates themselves. A selection of African cases helps to highlight some of the paradoxes of certification – such as its simultaneous openings and closures – while pointing to the relationality of its multiple dimensions, including: the material, symbolic, social, spatial, temporal, demographic, political and institutional. These overlapping dimensions manifest in site-specific ways across different empirical contexts in Africa and Asia and beyond,making transnational conversations especially meaningful for deeper understandings of the complexities of the authority-certification-citizenship nexus.
AB - A focus on certifications of citizenship as a range of inter-related practices of identity classification, categorisation, registration and validation, provides productive opportunities to explore the many ways that different authorities and/or different citizens engage with both the meaning and materiality of identity documents. At the heart of such practices is a complex politics of recognition that in turn is linked to the political economies of certification and of certificates themselves. A selection of African cases helps to highlight some of the paradoxes of certification – such as its simultaneous openings and closures – while pointing to the relationality of its multiple dimensions, including: the material, symbolic, social, spatial, temporal, demographic, political and institutional. These overlapping dimensions manifest in site-specific ways across different empirical contexts in Africa and Asia and beyond,making transnational conversations especially meaningful for deeper understandings of the complexities of the authority-certification-citizenship nexus.
U2 - 10.1080/09584935.2018.1465024
DO - 10.1080/09584935.2018.1465024
M3 - Journal article
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Contemporary South Asia
JF - Contemporary South Asia
SN - 0958-4935
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