Duplicity, intimacy, community
An ethnography of ID cards, permits and other fake documents in Delhi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4482103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Srivastava (0000-0003-0461-3122, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, India, corresponding author), Sanjay Srivastava (0000-0002-0426-1692) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-93 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513612456686 |
| OpenAlex | W2092426590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 6 |
In the annals of Indian modernity, narratives of tricksters and counterfeiters have a long, popular, and cautionary history. The topographies of deception outlined by colonial and post-colonial police reports established both its history as an aspect of modern industrial life as well as the city as the 'scene of the crime'. This article explores the meanings that attach to certain contemporary acts of deceiving and faking, and the ways in which they are both produced by being in the city as well as producing certain kinds of relationships. The article focuses on the residents of a Delhi slum and their various acts of producing fake identity cards and a variety of other documents. It offers a discussion about simulation and dissimulation, feigning and duplicity, and passing and pretending as significant contexts for gaining security of livelihood and residence in the city as well as constituting specific senses of community. Faking and counterfeiting, the article suggests, are arenas where the state both constitutes itself and contributes to the making of imagined non-state sensibilities of community
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Deception · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Residence · Slum · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Medicine in the Margins
Negotiating Informality– Ambiguity, Intermediation, and a Patchwork of Outcomes in Slums of Bengaluru
Becoming ‘Mother-Activists’
Politics in the Urban Periphery
Demanding Development
Cruel Pessimism and Waiting for Belonging
Paper struggles
Fixing Bhim Nagar
Given over to demand
Securing health care within a ‘magical’ state
Neighborhood Associations and the Urban Poor
Māṇḍavlī
Timepass’ and ‘setting’
Informal Archives
Basti mediators
To speak as another
Spatial adhocism of the urban territory
Citizenship as Burden of Proof
Bureaucratic Technologies and Political Subjects
Not worth the paper it's written on
When Is the State? Topology, Temporality, and the Navigation of Everyday State Space in Delhi
Translating transactions
(Un)Credible citizen
Enumeration as Pedagogic Process
When the Government Changes, the Card Will Also Change
Lean on me
Zones of compounded informality
Paperwork, patronage, and citizenship
Documents that matter
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,51 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2026 (58) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |