ID Wars in Côte d'Ivoire
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-287047-6 (ISBN)
Using ethnographic and historical data, it shows how the documentary struggle for citizenship has continued in the post-crisis reconstruction, affecting the new policies of identification and registration based upon biometrics and new technologies. It describes how the latter have been overturned and reframed by the Ivorian society. Focusing on the production and negotiation of legal identities, the book delves into the social life of IDs and biometrics and describes the clandestine world of the 'margouillats', the corrupt brokers of the civil registry, the forms of documentary falsification aimed at taming legal and bureaucratic principles with the requirements of ordinary social life, the hidden practices of state apparatuses of identification and the local machinery of biometric registration, and the self-made censuses and systems of identification used by minorities seeking recognition in the public space. Through these ethnographic descriptions with a specific approach 'from below', the book shows that actual reforms supposed to depoliticize - and in the case of biometric technologies, to de-socialize - identification do not erase its constitutively political dimension. From a comparative perspective, the case of Côte d'Ivoire reveals the unprecedented revenge of the documentary state on the biometric state and encourages us to rethink their dyadic opposition in a more complex triangulation of identification, debt and recognition.
Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations is a series for scholars and students working on African politics and International Relations and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on contemporary developments in African political science, political economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics, democratization, decentralization, the political impact of natural resources, the dynamics and consequences of conflict, and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and West. Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case studies are welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical implications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary debates. The series focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, although proposals that explain how the region engages with North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest. General Editors Nic Cheeseman, Peace Medie, and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira.
Richard Banégas is a Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Center for International Studies and Scientific Director of Sciences Po's Africa Program, dedicated most of his research to West African politics and the African Great Lakes region. From 2015 to 2020, he coordinated a collective research on identification and citizenship in Africa, and with Columbia University, he led another program on street politics in West Africa. His research focused on Côte d'Ivoire where he explored issues of citizenship, violence and youth mobilization. Armando Cutolo, PhD, is the Director of Master in Anthropology of the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Sienna. After having carried out a long-term field-research on the 'street parliaments' of Ivorian nationalists, he has focused on the struggles revolving around citizenship and identification, and joined the ANR-Papiers d'identité en Afrique research program based at Sciences Po-La Sorbonne.
Introduction: The Social Life of IDs in Côte d'Ivoire
1: Biometrics, Citizenship, and the Documentary State
2: The Politics of Identification. Genealogy of a Citizenship Crisis
3: 'Guns for Papers'
4: The Biometrics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
5: The Fabric of Statelessness
6: Margouillats, Kamikaze Papers, and the René Caillié Arrangement
7: Moral Credit Cards
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 684 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-287047-5 / 0192870475 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-287047-6 / 9780192870476 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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