Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

By Tommaso Bobbio. 2013

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Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, background): “Documentation has been known to be a weapon to dominate the non-literate in postcolonial societies [83] Also see administrative violence [195].”
Red Tape, Organizational Performance, and Employee Outcomes: Meta‐analysis, Meta‐regression, and Research Agenda (2020, unknown): “Finally, it is important to note that, while our finding that red tape has a stronger negative impact in post-colonial traditions is based on limited evidence, it does confirm other authors’ view that red tape can be particularly harmful in these settings (e.g., Gupta 2012; Nisar 2018).”
Dealing with the digital panopticon: the use and subversion of ICT in an Indian bureaucracy (2013, background): “There are also a growing number of anthropologists who look at the state and have begun to disaggregate the state [7,8,14].”