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Antina von Schnitzler
Researcher at The New School
Publications - 8
Citations - 889
Antina von Schnitzler is an academic researcher from The New School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Citizenship. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 622 citations. Previous affiliations of Antina von Schnitzler include Columbia University.
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Citizenship Prepaid: Water, Calculability, and Techno-Politics in South Africa*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the history of prepayment technology in South Africa from its initial development as a depoliticising device in the context of the rent boycotts, to its present de...
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TRAVELING TECHNOLOGIES: Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the politics of infrastructure in South Africa by focusing on the "travels" of a small technical device and argue that infrastructure itself becomes a political terrain for the negotiation of central ethical and political questions concerning civic virtue and the shape of citizenship.
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Performing dignity: Human rights, citizenship, and the techno-politics of law in South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, a legal case brought against the City of Johannesburg by five Soweto residents on the basis of their constitutionally guaranteed right to water is discussed. But the legal case is used as a lens to explore how the political terrain has been transformed in South Africa in the context of this rise of human rights and the law as languages and modalities of politics.