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The file: agency, authority, and autography in an Islamabad bureaucracy
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“Like other bureaucratic objects (Bubant 2009; Hull 2003; Riles 2007; Veesman 2008), the pink card has an indissoluble, brutal materiality.”
From The Governance of Things: Documenting Limbo in the Greek Asylum Procedure (2012) · cites this paper as Hull 2003
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Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
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“As Mauss was among the first to observe, the significance of many artifacts from Persian carpets (Spooner, 1986) to Massim kula shells (Munn, 1983) are deeply embedded in their histories: how they were made, who has acquired them and how, how they have been used, and so forth (Appadurai, 1986).”
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“But documents themselves can provoke anxieties in bureaucrats required to write on controversial matters (Hull 2003) or when the limits of their categories become apparent to them (Stoler 2009).”
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“Their form, the language, and conventions of presentation they used, the categories of data they applied—all provide insight into the kind of account giving required of those who administered the government of the time (Hull, 2003; Stoler, 2002).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hull, M. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hull, Matthew S.
- ORCID
- Hull, Matthew S.
- Venue
- Language & Communication
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-07
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 287-314
- ISSN
- 0271-5309 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2065474537
- Cited by
- 382
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 23.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language & Communication (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Semiotics and Representation Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Governance
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Keywords
- bureaucratic authority, bureaucratic institutions, autography, materiality of documents, semiotics, collectivization
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