Introduction: Nonrecording states between legibility and looking away
B Kalir, W Van Schendel - Focaal, 2017 - berghahnjournals.com
In this theme section we explore why and when states knowingly refrain from recording
people and their activities. States are not simply in pursuit of enhanced “legibility”; at times
they also need to be able to “look away.” In explaining strategies of nonrecording, our focus
is on how subjects negotiate with state recording agencies, how nonrecording relieves state
agents from the burden of accountability, how the discretionary power of individual state
agents affects (non) recording in unanticipated ways, and how states may project an illusion …
people and their activities. States are not simply in pursuit of enhanced “legibility”; at times
they also need to be able to “look away.” In explaining strategies of nonrecording, our focus
is on how subjects negotiate with state recording agencies, how nonrecording relieves state
agents from the burden of accountability, how the discretionary power of individual state
agents affects (non) recording in unanticipated ways, and how states may project an illusion …
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W van Schendel, B Kalir - Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical …, 2017 - pure.knaw.nl
In this theme section we explore why and when states knowingly refrain from recording
people and their activities. States are not simply in pursuit of enhanced “legibility”; at times
they also need to be able to “look away.” In explaining strategies of nonrecording, our focus
is on how subjects negotiate with state recording agencies, how nonrecording relieves state
agents from the burden of accountability, how the discretionary power of individual state
agents affects (non) recording in unanticipated ways, and how states may project an illusion …
people and their activities. States are not simply in pursuit of enhanced “legibility”; at times
they also need to be able to “look away.” In explaining strategies of nonrecording, our focus
is on how subjects negotiate with state recording agencies, how nonrecording relieves state
agents from the burden of accountability, how the discretionary power of individual state
agents affects (non) recording in unanticipated ways, and how states may project an illusion …
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