Bureaucratic Mediations for Biometric Governance in India’s Northeast—Aadhaar in Tripura
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11016199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nafis Aziz Hasan (0000-0001-8175-9841, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 560-576 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0085-6401 • E-ISSN: 1479-0270 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00856401.2022.2035976 |
| OpenAlex | W4220814382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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 situation of strife and reconciliation, the work of the bureaucracy highlights the contextual, territorial conditions of securitisation within which a biometric database takes shape. This paper aims to challenge claims about Aadhaar as an emblematic case of biometric governance ushering in a ‘new’ state, instead suggesting linkages with existing forms of state practices and ongoing state projects
Biometrics · Bureaucracy · Business · Computer security · Corporate governance · Limiting · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Subversion · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Engineering · Finance · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |