CERTIZENS Africa Podcast: Recent Episodes
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.
Project Leader Amanda Hammar introduces the CERTIZENS Africa project and podcast, in conversation with Alice Troy-Donovan. What is at stake in how systems of classification, certification and identification are used to shape citizens and states, in African contexts and globally? What should we make of the double-edged nature of emerging systems of citizen registration and certification? And what can you look forward to in future CERTIZENS Africa podcasts?
Dr Bronwen Manby (LSE Senior Policy Fellow and CERTIZENS Scientific Advisory Board member) discusses the key themes and concerns of the CERTIZENS project. She asks: Why is CERTIZENS important in the current moment? How does the project fit into the existing literature and thinking on identification globally? And what is particular about certifications of citizens in the African context?