Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self

ISBN-13: 9780367513085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 374 str.

Séverine Awenengo Dalberto; Richard Banégas

Opis

In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa "from below". Drawing on empirical research conducted across 14 countries, the book documents the processes, practices and meanings of legal identification in Africa from the 1950s.

O autorze

Séverine Awenengo Dalberto is a CNRS Researcher at the Institut des mondes africains (IMAF), France. Richard Banégas is a Professor at Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po, France.