Email:dodomkim[at]sophia.ac.jp
Office: 10-505
Tel: 03-3238-4062

My research focuses on how legal and technological infrastructure shapes state and citizenship discourses at the scale of everyday lives in East Asia. My current writing project, Documenting Uncertainties, is based on multi-year ethnographic fieldwork in Shenzhen, China. By examining how urban migrants speak of and interact with ID cards, certificates, permits, and numerous other evidentiary documents, I examine the heterogeneous understandings of urban citizenship that the materiality of documents can facilitate. More recently, I began exploring how media technologies with different sensorial capacities mediate discourses of legal rights, social justice, and citizenship.

I currently teach courses on border studies, law and culture, and visual anthropology.

• (In preparation) Where the Digital Starts and Ends: Serving the Vulnerable through Patchy Infrastructural Recognition.
• Kim, Dodom. 2021. Rule of Law and Media in the Making of Legal Identity in Urban Southern China. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology, Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker (eds.), pp.174-191. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Kim, Dodom. 2020. Narrating Mobility as an Achievement on the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Border. Made In China Journal 5(3): 119-124.
• Kim, Dodom. 2020. 성중촌의 소문: 재개발 현장의 폭력과 돌봄 [Urban Village Rumors: Violence and Care in a Redevelopment Site], 민간중국-21세기 중국인의 조각보 [Minjian China—Patchwork on the Chinese People of the 21st Century], edited by Mun Young Cho, pp. 259-289. Seoul: Ch’aek kwa Hamkke.
• Kim, Dodom. 2020. Mixed Movements: Virus, Things, Persons, and Signs Part 1, Part 2. Oxford COMPAS blog.

Faculty of Liberal Arts

ETHNOGRAPHIC MODES OF INQUIRY
ADVANCED READINGS IN ANTHROPOLOGY