| ID | 159874 |
| Title Proper | Certifications of citizenship |
| Other Title Information | reflections through an African lens |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Hammar, Amanda |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary South Asia Vol. 26, No.2; Jun 2018: p.238-246 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary South Asia Vol: 26 No 2 |
| Key Words | Citizenship ; Africa ; Authority ; Certification ; Identity Documents |