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SUMMARY:Village identity papers and the production of moral homelands in U
 ganda - Florence Brisset-Foucault\, Université Panthéon Sorbonne 
DTSTART:20200224T170000Z
DTEND:20200224T183000Z
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:Biometric National Identity Cards were introduced by the Ugand
 an central government from 2014\, yet archival research and ethnographic f
 ieldwork in varied parts of the country reveal that the production of iden
 tity papers has a long\, plural and localised history throughout the count
 ry. Since the early 1980s\, village leaders have been issuing village iden
 tity cards and letters of introduction to residents. This paper explores t
 he social and localised although connected logics that have led to the dev
 elopment of these bureaucracies of identity at the village level. It seeks
  to unpack the social conditions\, the varied moral ambitions\, and the pa
 rticular histories of social differentiation and literacy that lead to the
  production of identity documents. It shows that while they embraced the n
 ational agenda of technological renewal of identity documentation\, villag
 e leaders did it on their own terms\, with the ambition to produce moral a
 nd cosmopolitan communities of "good character citizens"\, anchored in hie
 rarchical social sieves\, rather than mere "ethnicised" individuals.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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