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Cecilia Passanti

Université Paris Cité (CEPED), France

Cecilia Passanti is a PhD candidate in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Université Paris Cité and member of the Center for Population and Development (CEPED). Her thesis on election technologies and biometrics in Africa is based on the ethnographic method to explore new forms of international and industrial governance of political participation. She recently published in Social Studies of Science (2022), ‘The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy’, in Francia (2021), ‘Contesting the electoral register during the 2019 elections in Senegal. Why Allegations of Fraud Did not End with the Introduction of Biometrics’, and a book chapter titled 'The division of biometric labour: relations of production in African voter-identification technologies' in 'Technoscientific Globalisation from Below', Mattering Press.

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