DocumentCode
264661
Title
Seeing with Paper: Government Documents and Material Participation
Author
Finn, Megan ; Srinivasan, Janaki ; Veeraraghavan, Rajesh
fYear
2014
fDate
6-9 Jan. 2014
Firstpage
1515
Lastpage
1524
Abstract
Government documents such as welfare applications or accounting records are often considered mundane artifacts that signify shared practice and routine. In this paper we examine cases where these "everyday documents" are sites of creation and contestation of the dominant information order. We argue that the circulation of everyday government documents opens up the possibility for a population to gaze back and "see" the state. In three cases, we show how the materiality of everyday documents in welfare schemes takes center-stage in mediating public participation in India and in the US.
Keywords
Earthquakes; Fires; Government; Materials; Sociology; Statistics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
System Sciences (HICSS), 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location
Waikoloa, HI
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HICSS.2014.195
Filename
6758792
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