CERTIZENS Africa Podcast

Amanda Hammar, Alice Troy-Donovan

This is the podcast of the Certifications of Citizenship in Africa (CERTIZENS) project, which considers how politics, policy and practice relating to citizen classification, certification and identification shape both citizens and states in selected African contexts.

Episodes

  1. 05/16/2022

    Professor Amanda Hammar: Introducing CERTIZENS

    More about Amanda Hammar: Academic profile More about the CERTIZENS project: https://teol.ku.dk/english/dept/certizens-certifications-of-citizenship-in-africa/ Amanda Hammar’s research on urban displacement in Zimbabwe:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/article/urban-displacement-and-resettlement-in-zimbabwe-the-paradoxes-of-propertied-citizenship/5102079C9BBF45F81B3487AC3E75C3B5 UN definition of legal identity: https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/ World Bank ID4D programme: https://id4africa.com James Scott’s concept of “legibility” is elaborated on in his book Seeing Like a State: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-like-a-state/ More information on the new national ID for Ghana, the GhanaCard:  https://nia.gov.gh/the-ghanacard-introduction/ https://www.biometricupdate.com/202202/difficulties-in-registration-for-ghanas-digital-id-worries-lawmakers   If you have comments, suggestions or would like to be part of a future CERTIZENS podcast, write to us at certizens@teol.ku.dk Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  2. 05/16/2022

    Dr Bronwen Manby: Identification in Africa

    More about Bronwen Manby: Academic profile   Links to academic works cited: Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter, Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History Keith Breckenridge, Biometric State Robtel Pailey, Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa   Other scholars mentioned: Peter Ekeh, Mahmood Mamdani, Stephen Ndegwa, Peter Geschiere, Jean Francois Bayart, Francis Nyamnjoh, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Crawford Young, George and Gloria Bob-Milliar   If you have comments, suggestions or would like to be part of a future CERTIZENS podcast, write to us at certizens@teol.ku.dk   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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This is the podcast of the Certifications of Citizenship in Africa (CERTIZENS) project, which considers how politics, policy and practice relating to citizen classification, certification and identification shape both citizens and states in selected African contexts.

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