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- Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship
- Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Archive Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Spectacle of Independence and the Specter of Bureaucracy
- Part I Hybrid Bureaucracy: How Race and Emergency Shaped the Organization of Colonial Rule
- 1 The Effective Disorder of Hybrid Bureaucracy
- Part II The Axis of Suspicion: Classifications of Identity and Mobility in Crises
- Part III Administrative Memory and the Legacies of Emergency
- Conclusion: The File and the Checkpoint – Colonial Bureaucracy and the Making of Contemporary Citizenship
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The Effective Disorder of Hybrid Bureaucracy
from Part I - Hybrid Bureaucracy: How Race and Emergency Shaped the Organization of Colonial Rule
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2022
- Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship
- Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Archive Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Spectacle of Independence and the Specter of Bureaucracy
- Part I Hybrid Bureaucracy: How Race and Emergency Shaped the Organization of Colonial Rule
- 1 The Effective Disorder of Hybrid Bureaucracy
- Part II The Axis of Suspicion: Classifications of Identity and Mobility in Crises
- Part III Administrative Memory and the Legacies of Emergency
- Conclusion: The File and the Checkpoint – Colonial Bureaucracy and the Making of Contemporary Citizenship
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Part I, “Hybrid Bureaucracy: How Race and Emergency Shaped the Organization of Colonial Rule,” comprises one chapter. It stipulates the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings for the organizing principles of hybrid bureaucracy to challenge the view that British colonial bureaucracy did not have a set of distinct institutional forms and theories of administration. It proposes that “looking over the shoulder of the bureaucrat” from the perspective of colonial officials provides a set of organizing principles of hybrid bureaucracy that were not in and of themselves, but rather served as sources of power. It generates a synthetic model of this type of bureaucracy to provide scaffolding for the analysis of how explicitly racialized practices and a perpetual state of emergency affect bureaucratic organization and practice.
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- Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship , pp. 31 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022