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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
- Part II The Axis of Suspicion: Classifications of Identity and Mobility in Crises
- 2 Forms of Suspicion: Mobility As Threat, Census As Battleground
- 3 The Bureaucratic Toolkit of Emergency
- 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
3 - The Bureaucratic Toolkit of Emergency
from Part II - The Axis of Suspicion: Classifications of Identity and Mobility in Crises
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
- Part II The Axis of Suspicion: Classifications of Identity and Mobility in Crises
- 2 Forms of Suspicion: Mobility As Threat, Census As Battleground
- 3 The Bureaucratic Toolkit of Emergency
- 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
“The Bureaucratic Toolkit of Emergency” tracks how the bureaucratic toolkit of emergency developed between the two world wars. Focusing on India as the central case, it follows the making of blacklists and suspect lists, the proliferation of disturbed areas and closed zones, exit permits, mobility regimes, and registration practices of foreigners. It then traces how these practices diffused through the horizontal circuits of empire to Palestine and Cyprus, in times of crises, forming a conceptual grid of bureaucratic classifications of mobility according to suspicion, and differentiated practices to manage the fluid and changing categories of those designated as “dangerous populations.”
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- Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship , pp. 90 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022