Nafis Aziz Hasan
Biographic Data
| ID | 168428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nafis Aziz Hasan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nafis Aziz |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasan |
| SIGNATURE | HASAN N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8175-9841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Calculable Bureaucratic Time
Public bureaucracies, in their pioneering description, are rationalized spaces necessitating “slow” temporalities of processual work. Yet, around the world focus on speed and acceleration in society at large has led to making bureaucratic time more discrete and calculable. In India, since the advent of the modern colonial bureaucracy, time has been materialized through clocks, calendars and time-sheets, yet this has not resulted in discrete, meas…
Citizen labor
In the last two decades, India's system of agricultural land management has been transitioning from paper to digital records. In effecting this shift, engineers and bureaucrats in the city of Bangalore, India's "Silicon Valley," have tacitly and invisibly shifted the responsibility for maintaining data from the state to individuals. Moreover, the new digital databases of land records have fragmented offices and dispersed data across new sites and…
Mutating Records'-Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Realm of Splintering Digitality
The digitalisation of the state in India and elsewhere has produced a range of effects and critical responses. Arguably, digital processes intervene in the functioning of paper processes, the lynchpin of bureaucratic states with a colonial legacy. Digitalisation must be understood as the emergence of data and technologies splintered across many different locations and functions of the state rather than as a singular form. This article argues that…
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura
Interrogating Aadhaar, India’s biometric ID project for its billion-plus residents, in the small north-eastern state of Tripura, where it first achieved high levels of acceptance, reveals that ‘success’ at enrolments into the database was dependent on the subversion of its celebrated biometric potentials by a local mediating bureaucracy. By limiting enrolments to previously documented subjects and enrolling Aadhaar into an ongoing regional situat…
Citizen labor
In the last two decades, India's system of agricultural land management has been transitioning from paper to digital records. In effecting this shift, engineers and bureaucrats in the city of Bangalore, India's "Silicon Valley," have tacitly and invisibly shifted the responsibility for maintaining data from the state to individuals. Moreover, the new digital databases of land records have fragmented offices and dispersed data across new sites and…
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura
Interrogating Aadhaar, India’s biometric ID project for its billion-plus residents, in the small north-eastern state of Tripura, where it first achieved high levels of acceptance, reveals that ‘success’ at enrolments into the database was dependent on the subversion of its celebrated biometric potentials by a local mediating bureaucracy. By limiting enrolments to previously documented subjects and enrolling Aadhaar into an ongoing regional situat…
Mutating Records'-Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Realm of Splintering Digitality
The digitalisation of the state in India and elsewhere has produced a range of effects and critical responses. Arguably, digital processes intervene in the functioning of paper processes, the lynchpin of bureaucratic states with a colonial legacy. Digitalisation must be understood as the emergence of data and technologies splintered across many different locations and functions of the state rather than as a singular form. This article argues that…
Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura
Interrogating Aadhaar, India’s biometric ID project for its billion-plus residents, in the small north-eastern state of Tripura, where it first achieved high levels of acceptance, reveals that ‘success’ at enrolments into the database was dependent on the subversion of its celebrated biometric potentials by a local mediating bureaucracy. By limiting enrolments to previously documented subjects and enrolling Aadhaar into an ongoing regional situat…
Mutating Records'-Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Realm of Splintering Digitality
The digitalisation of the state in India and elsewhere has produced a range of effects and critical responses. Arguably, digital processes intervene in the functioning of paper processes, the lynchpin of bureaucratic states with a colonial legacy. Digitalisation must be understood as the emergence of data and technologies splintered across many different locations and functions of the state rather than as a singular form. This article argues that…
Citizen labor
In the last two decades, India's system of agricultural land management has been transitioning from paper to digital records. In effecting this shift, engineers and bureaucrats in the city of Bangalore, India's "Silicon Valley," have tacitly and invisibly shifted the responsibility for maintaining data from the state to individuals. Moreover, the new digital databases of land records have fragmented offices and dispersed data across new sites and…
Calculable Bureaucratic Time
Public bureaucracies, in their pioneering description, are rationalized spaces necessitating “slow” temporalities of processual work. Yet, around the world focus on speed and acceleration in society at large has led to making bureaucratic time more discrete and calculable. In India, since the advent of the modern colonial bureaucracy, time has been materialized through clocks, calendars and time-sheets, yet this has not resulted in discrete, meas…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Bureaucracy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works)