Description du projet
Comment les dispositifs d’identification numérique changent l’expérience de la citoyenneté
Les dispositifs d’identification numérique tels que les cartes d’identité électroniques permettent d’accéder aux services gouvernementaux via des codes PIN, des bases de données biométriques et des portefeuilles d’identité numérique sécurisés par la blockchain. Le débat public autour de ces dispositifs se concentre souvent sur les ramifications de leur utilisation à des fins criminelles, plutôt que sur leur utilisation prévue par la majorité des citoyens. Le projet DigID du Conseil européen de la recherche vise à évaluer comment les technologies et les infrastructures utilisées à des fins citoyennes se transforment à l’ère numérique. Il examinera comment les relations entre les citoyens et les gouvernements sont remodelées par les dispositifs d’identification numérique en ce qui concerne l’enregistrement des naissances, les transactions entre citoyens et gouvernements et les contrôles aux frontières.
Objectif
We are witnessing the most significant change in statist identification practices since the consolidation of the international passport regime in the 19th century. Digital ID devices like electronic ID cards providing access to government services via PINs, biometric databases, and blockchain-secured digital identity wallets are increasingly complementing, or even replacing, paper-based means of identification. Yet so far, the implications of digital ID devices have mostly been studied in relation to criminal suspects and migrant 'others', not the normalized majority of citizens. This project uses this unique moment of change to assess how material citizenship - i.e. the technologies and infrastructures used to enact citizenship as a political subjectivity and a formal relation to the state - is reshaped in the digital age. Its principal research question is: How does the digitization of identification practices reconfigure relations between citizens and state authorities? The project investigates transformations of citizen-state relations through digital ID devices at three sites: birth registration, citizen-government transactions, and border controls. Theoretically, the project draws on science and technology and data studies to propose a conception of material citizenship as performative and sociotechnical and to advance a research agenda that focuses on the practical, epistemic, political, and ethical implications of digital identification. Methodologically, the project combines multi-sited ethnographies, textual analysis, and mapping to study the design, implementation, and use of digital ID devices in one international and four national case studies. In this way, DigID sheds light on the much-neglected material dimension of citizenship and shows how digital ID devices reshape the lived experience of citizenship - understood as a legal status, a form of membership in a political community, and a set of bottom-up practices enacting the 'right to have rights'.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
21335 Luneburg
Allemagne