Addressability: Identification and Communicative Positions in Critical Sociological Perspective

In this article we develop the concept of addressability to help us unpack processes of identification.

June 2025 · Baki Cakici, Alena Thiel

The Politics of Seamlessness: A Rights Claims Perspective on Digital Identification Technologies

We analyse seamlessness and political participation as digital identification becomes the invisible background of state-citizen interactions.

June 2024 · Baki Cakici, Alena Thiel, Ranjit Singh

When Numbers Run Out: Civil Registration and the Performativity of Methods

Personal identification numbers used in the Nordic countries contain a fundamental tension that is impossible to resolve via technical fixes.

January 2024 · Baki Cakici