Measuring Kinship – Negotiating Belonging
Christof Lammer, Tatjana ThelenThis project explores how measurements of kinship shape inequalities and marginalizations in negotiations of belonging.
Technicisation of Migration in Sudan
Timm SureauFocusing on South Sudanese refugees, this project inquires into the role of quantification and digitalization in humanitarian procedures of population management and in refugees’ attempts to navigate the resulting regulations.
An Ethnography of Programming
Timm SureauThis project investigates the digitalizing of workflow procedures of German administrative bodies managing migration and asks how this process leads to transformations of bureaucratic sentiments.
Identification Technologies in Ghana
Alena Thiel, Richard RottenburgThis project investigates the relation between recent innovations in the field of identification technologies and the production of key development indicators in Ghana.
Biometric Capitalism: Africa in the 21th century
Keith BreckenridgeThis project examines the development of biometric identification and financialisation technologies on the African continent.
Science at the Ugandan Parliament
Kerry HoldenThis project explores evidence regimes in parliamentary deliberations in Uganda and asks how new epistemic orders emerge to influence political decision-making.
Biometric Futures
Ursula RaoThis project traces the relevance of biometric technology for the re-making of bodies, populations and political subjects in contemporary India.
Evidences and Futures
Richard RottenburgThis project investigates how evidence-making results in the attribution of accountability to legal persons and thereby does onto-epistemological work on the future.