The Truth of the Error

Jacobsen, Elida K. U.; Rao, Ursula

doi:10.1215/9781478004301-002

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“…Moreover, the technology of biometric systems cannot register bodies that are not complete; those with injured eyes or fingers, who have speaking impairments, or transgender bodies escape the normative systems of identification. Such a technology does not necessarily grant such bodies freedom from surveillance but instead submits them to further systems of surveillance (Constanza-Shock, 2020;Jacobsen & Rao, 2018).…”

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Ponzanesi

2024

Doing Digital Migration Studies

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ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: challenging the premise of face-to-face proximity in sustaining relationships. Global Networks, 16(2), 133-144. Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway. Duke University Press. Beck, U. (2016). The metamorphosis of the world: How climate change is transforming our world. Polity. Beck, U. (2010). The cosmopolitan manifesto. In G. Wallace Brown & D. Held (Eds.).The cosmopolitan reader (pp. 217-228). Polity Press.

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confidence: 99%

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2024

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Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control

Møhl

2020

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Transparency, exclusion and mediation: how digital and biometric technologies are transforming social protection in Tamil Nadu, India

Carswell

Neve

2021

Oxford Development Studies

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What are the effects of biometric and digital technologies on social protection for the poor in India? Drawing on ethnographic research from rural Tamil Nadu, this paper presents evidence of how new technologies are experienced by beneficiaries of the Public Distribution System (PDS), and analyses the impacts of technology innovations on transparency, exclusion and mediation. The authors focus on the implementation of 'smartcards,' new digitised and Aadhaar-enabled ration cards, introduced in ration shops across Tamil Nadu in 2017. They first document how digitised smartcards and mobile text messages transform transparency for beneficiaries by introducing new opacities and information gaps. They then demonstrate how a lack of transparency (re)produces forms of exclusion that remain a challenge under the automated PDS. Finally, the paper highlights how novel forms of kin and non-kin mediation play a mitigating role in accessing PDS, and constitute a vital part of the infrastructure underpinning social welfare delivery.

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The Truth of the Error

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

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Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control

Transparency, exclusion and mediation: how digital and biometric technologies are transforming social protection in Tamil Nadu, India

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