Assembling partial perspectives: Thoughts on the anthropology of bureaucracy

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-94

  Hoag, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861788403     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2011.01140.x     Document Type: Note

References (60)

1. Albrow, Martin 1997 Do Organizations Have Feelings? New York, NY: Routledge
2. Arendt, Hannah 1967 The Origins of Totalitarianism. London: Allen and Unwin.
3. Blundo, Giorgio, and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, eds. 2006 Everyday Corruption and the State: Citizens and Public Officials in Africa. London: Zed Books.
4. Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star 1999 Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
5. Brenneis, Donald 1994 Discourse and Discipline at the National Research Council: A Bureaucratic Bildungsroman. Cultural Anthropology 9(1):23-36.
6. Brenneis, Donald 1999 New Lexicon, Old Language: Negotiating the "Global" at the National Science Foundation. In Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas. George E. Marcus, ed. Pp. 123-146. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
7. Burawoy, Michael 1979 The Anthropology of Industrial Work. Annual Review of Anthropology 8:231-266.
8. Das, Veena 2004 The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility. In Anthropology in the Margins of the State. Veena Das and Deborah Poole, eds. Pp. 225-252. Oxford: James Currey.
9. Dery, David 1998 "Papereality" and Learning in Bureaucratic Organizations. Administration & Society 29(6):677-689.
10. Feldman, Ilana 2008 Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967. Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press.
11. Ferguson, James 1994 The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
12. Foucault, Michel 1978 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Alan Sheridan, trans. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.
13. Foucault, Michel 1991 Governmentality. In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, eds. Pp. 87-104. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
14. Gordillo, Gast́on 2006 The Crucible of Citizenship: ID-Paper Fetishism in the Argentinean Chaco. American Ethnologist 33(2):162-176.
15. Guyer, Jane 2004 Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
16. Handelman, Don 1981 Introduction: The Idea of Bureaucratic Organization. Social Analysis 9:5-23.
17. Hansen, Thomas Blum, and Finn Stepputat 2001 Introduction: States of Imagination. In States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State. Thomas Blum Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. Pp. 1-40. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
18. Haraway, Donna J. 1988 Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies 14(3):575-599.
19. Harper, Richard H. R. 1998 Inside the IMF: An Ethnography of Documents, Technology and Organisational Action. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
20. Herzfeld, Michael 1992 The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
21. Heyman, Josiah McC. 2004 The Anthropology of Power-Wielding Bureaucracies. Human Organization 63(4):487-500.
22. Hoag, Colin 2010 The Magic of the Populace: An Ethnography of Illegibility in the South African Immigration Bureaucracy. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 33(1):6-25.
23. N.d. On the Importance of Time to the Anthropology of Bureaucracy: Between Prospection and Retrospection at the South African Department of Home Affairs. Under submission.
24. Hull, Matthew S. 2003 The File: Agency, Authority, and Autography in an Islamabad Bureaucracy. Language and Communication 23:287-314.
25. Hull, Matthew S. 2008 Ruled by Papers: The Expropriation of Land and the Misappropriation of Lists in Islamabad. American Ethnologist 35(4):501-518.
26. Jacob, Marie-Andŕee 2007 Form-Made Persons: Consent Forms as Consent's Blind Spot. Po-LAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 30(2):249-268.
27. Jasanoff, Sheila, ed. 2004 States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order. New York, NY: Routledge.
28. Latour, Bruno 1992 Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts. In Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, eds. Pp. 225-258. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
29. Latour, Bruno 2004 Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry 30:225-248.
30. Latour, Bruno 2010 An Attempt at a "Compositionist Manifesto." New Literary History 41(3):471-490.
31. Lederman, Rena 2006 The Perils of Working at Home: IRB "Mission Creep" as Context and Content for an Ethnography of Disciplinary Knowledges. American Ethnologist 33(4):482-491.
32. Lipsky, Michael 1980 Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
33. MacKenzie, Donald 2008 Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed. Clarendon Lectures in Management Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
34. Marcus, George E. 1999 Critical Anthropology Now: An Introduction. In Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Constituencies, Changing Agendas. George E. Marcus, ed. Pp. 3-28. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
35. Marcus, George E. 2000 Introduction. In Para-Sites: A Casebook Against Cynical Reason. George E. Marcus, ed. Pp. 1-15. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
36. Mathews, Andrew S. 2008 State Making, Knowledge, and Ignorance: Translation and Concealment in Mexican Forestry Institutions. American Anthropologist 110(4):484-494.
37. Maurer, Bill 2005 Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
38. Merton, Robert K. 1936 The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action. American Sociological Review 1(6):894-904.
39. Merton, Robert K. 1968 Social Structure and Social Theory. New York, NY: Free Press.
40. Miyazaki, Hirokazu 2004 The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
41. Mosse, David 2005 Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. London: Pluto Press.
42. Nuijten, Monique 2003 Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology of Organisation in Mexico. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press.
43. Perrow, Charles 1986 Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
44. Pratt, Mary Louise 1992 Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. New York, NY: Routledge.
45. Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria 2011 Matters of Care in Technoscience: Assembling Neglected Things. Social Studies of Science 41(1):85-106.
46. Riles, Annelise, ed. 2006a Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
47. Riles, Annelise 2000 The Network Inside Out. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
48. Riles, Annelise 2004 Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge. American Ethnologist 31(3):392-405.
49. Riles, Annelise 2006b In Response. In Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge. Annelise Riles, ed. Pp. 1-40. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
50. Scott, James C. 1998 Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
51. Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer 1985 Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
52. Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer 1989 Institutional Ecology, "Translations" and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science 19(3):387-420.
53. Stengers, Isabel 2005 The Cosmopolitical Proposal. In Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Pp. 994-1003. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
54. Strathern, Marilyn, ed. 2000 Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. New York, NY: Routledge.
55. Taussig, Michael 1997 The Magic of the State. New York, NY: Routledge.
56. Ticktin, Miriam 2006 Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France. American Ethnologist 33(1):33-49.
57. Trouillot, Michel Rolph 2003 Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.
58. Verdery, Katherine 1996 What was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
59. Weber, Max 1904 "Objectivity" in Social Science and Social Policy. In The Methodology of the Social Sciences. Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch, eds. Pp. 49-112. New York, NY: Free Press.
60. Weber, Max 1978 Bureaucracy. In Economy and Society. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, trans. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.