On the banality of paperwork and the brutality of judicial bureaucracy in Myanmar
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Bureaucratic paperwork seems to be self-evidently banal. But why does it matter that paperwork has this appearance? What work is banality doing? This article addresses these general questions by attending to three specific material qualities of banality in files from Myanmar’s Supreme Court under military dictatorship, for the years 1992–1998: namely, their uniform typeface, frequent tabulation, and strenuous concatenation. Each has a corresponding value for bureaucracy: typeface...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2019 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/222090 |
Source: | History and Anthropology |
DOI: | 10.1080/02757206.2019.1607731 |
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