When Biopolitics Turn Digital
Transparency, Corruption, and Erasures from the Infrastructure of Rationing in Delhi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2290713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guillaume Dandurand (0000-0003-0607-9816, Université de Sherbrooke) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 268-282 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-6976 • E-ISSN: 1555-2934 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/plar.12305 |
| OpenAlex | W2995725558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 27 |
Following the ratification of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2013, the Indian state digitized its food rationing infrastructure, replacing paper-based ration cards with digital rationing documents and other technologies of authentication. The shift from analog to digital documentary practices has rematerialized documents and devices to enable closer monitoring of the exchange of food entitlements in ration shops. Making biopolitics digital has enabled the state to exert greater control over rationing practices by rendering them more transparent. However, the state's obsession with preventing practices of corruption has hindered, rather than facilitated, access to entitlements for some rightful beneficiaries of the NFSA
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Rule By Aesthetics
The Promise of Infrastructure
The Will to Improve
Document Raj
Anthropology in the margins of the state
Documents and Bureaucracy
Rules, Paper, Status
Powers of Freedom
Democracy's Infrastructure
Reassembling the Social
State Transparency after the Neoliberal Turn
Political Documents and Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs
Voter Registration Cards, Political Subjectivity, and Trust in Paper in the Gambia
Seeing the State
Hydraulic City
Documents
Feeling the rules
Government of Paper
Form-Made Persons
Blurred Boundaries
Guerrilla Auditors
Transparent-making Documents and the Crisis of Implementation
The Governance of Things
The anti-political economy
Food policy and politics
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |