Desiring Bureaucracy

Literature Cited

1. Ahmed S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
2. Alaimo S, Hekman S 2008. Introduction: emerging models of materiality in feminist theory. Material Feminisms S Alaimo, S Hekman 1–19 Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press
   [Google Scholar]
3. Altman J 2016. Bawinanga and CDEP: the vibrant life, and near death, of a major Aboriginal corporation in Arnhem Land. Better than Welfare? Work and Livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after CDEP K Jordon 175–217 Acton, Aust.: Cent. Aborig. Econ. Policy Res.
   [Google Scholar]
4. Appel H. 2019. The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
   [Google Scholar]
5. Arendt H. 1964. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil New York: Viking Press
   [Google Scholar]
6. Augé M. 1995. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, transl J Howe London: Verso
   [Google Scholar]
7. Bear L, Mathur N. 2015. Introduction. Remaking the public good: a new anthropology of bureaucracy. Camb. J. Anthropol. 33:18–34
   [Google Scholar]
8. Berardi F. 2005. What does cognitariat mean? Work, desire and depression. Cult. Stud. Rev. 11:57–63
   [Google Scholar]
9. Berardi F. 2009. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)
   [Google Scholar]
10. Bessire L. 2014. The rise of indigenous hypermarginality: native culture as a neoliberal politics of life. Curr. Anthropol. 55:276–95
    [Google Scholar]
11. Bond D. 2021. Contamination in theory and protest. Am. Ethnol. In press
    [Google Scholar]
12. Bourdieu P. 1994. Rethinking the state: genesis and structure of the bureaucratic field. Sociol. Theory 12:11–18
    [Google Scholar]
13. Bowker GC. 2000. Biodiversity datadiversity. Soc. Stud. Sci. 30:5643–83
    [Google Scholar]
14. Brenneis D. 1994. Discourse and discipline at the National Research Council: a bureaucratic Bildungsroman. Cult. Anthropol. 9:123–36
    [Google Scholar]
15. Brenneis D. 1999. New lexicon, old language: negotiating the “global” at the National Science Foundation. Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas GE Marcus 123–46 Santa Fe, NM: Sch. Am. Res. Press
    [Google Scholar]
16. Brodén D. 2011. The dark ambivalences of the welfare state: investigating the transformations of the Swedish crime film. North. Lights 2011:995–109
    [Google Scholar]
17. Brody H. 1975. The People's Land: Eskimos and Whites in the Eastern Arctic Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin
    [Google Scholar]
18. Brown D. 2020. Digital government: ideology and new forms of power. PhD Thesis Deakin Univ. Melbourne:
    [Google Scholar]
19. Brown W. 2015. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
    [Google Scholar]
20. Bubandt N. 2012. A psychology of ghosts: the regime of the self and the reinvention of spirits in Indonesia and beyond. Anthropol. Forum 22:11–23
    [Google Scholar]
21. Carr ES. 2011. Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
22. Cohn C. 1987. Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals. Signs 12:687–718
    [Google Scholar]
23. Cooper D. 2017. Prefiguring the state. Antipode 49:2335–56
    [Google Scholar]
24. Cooper D. 2020. Feeling Like a State: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
25. Crozier M. 1964. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
26. Davis O. 2020. Neoliberal capitalism's bureaucracies of ‘governance’. New Form. 100–10160–76
    [Google Scholar]
27. Du Gay P 2000. In Praise of Bureaucracy London: SAGE
28. Du Gay P 2020. The bureaucratic vocation: state/office/ethics. New Form 100–10177–96
    [Google Scholar]
29. Dumit J. 2004. Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
30. Elyachar J. 2012. Before (and after) neoliberalism: tacit knowledge, secrets of the trade, and the public sector in Egypt. Cult. Anthropol. 27:76–96
    [Google Scholar]
31. Escobar A. 1994. Welcome to Cyberia: notes on the anthropology of cyberculture. Curr. Anthropol. 35:3211–31
    [Google Scholar]
32. Estes N. 2019. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance London: Verso
33. Fache E. 2014. Caring for country, a form of bureaucratic participation: conservation, development, and neoliberalism in Indigenous Australia. Anthropol. Forum 24:3267–86
    [Google Scholar]
34. Feldman A. 2005. On the actuarial gaze: from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. Cult. Stud. 19:203–26
    [Google Scholar]
35. Ferguson J, Gupta A. 2002. Spatializing states: toward an ethnography of neoliberal governmentality. Am. Ethnol. 29:4981–1002
    [Google Scholar]
36. Ferguson JM. 2014. Terminally haunted: aviation ghosts, hybrid Buddhist practices, and disaster aversion strategies amongst airport workers in Myanmar and Thailand. Asia Pac. J. Anthropol. 15:47–64
    [Google Scholar]
37. Fisher WF. 1997. Doing good? The politics and antipolitics of NGO practices. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 26:439–64
    [Google Scholar]
38. Fortun M, Fortun K. 2005. Scientific imaginaries and ethical plateaus in contemporary US toxicology. Am. Anthropol. 107:43–54
    [Google Scholar]
39. Foucault M 1991. Governmentality. The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality G Burchell, C Gordon, P Miller 87–104 London: Harvester Wheatsheaf
    [Google Scholar]
40. Froud J, Johal S, Moran M, Williams K. 2017. Outsourcing the state: new sources of elite power. Theory Cult. Soc 34:5–677–101
    [Google Scholar]
41. Gilmore RW. 2007. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
42. Gordon AF. 2008. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press
    [Google Scholar]
43. Graeber D. 2015. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy Brooklyn, NY: Melville House:
    [Google Scholar]
44. Gregg M. 2018. Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
45. Gupta A. 1995. Blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics and the imagined state. Am. Ethnol 22:375–402
    [Google Scholar]
46. Gupta A. 2012. Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
47. Hakken D. 1993. Computing and social change: new technology and workplace transformation, 1980–1990. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 22:107–32
    [Google Scholar]
48. Handelman D. 2004. Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events Oxford, UK: Berg
49. Hansen TB, Stepputat F 2001. Introduction: states of imagination. States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State TB Hansen, F Stepputat 1–38 Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
50. Haraway DJ. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
51. Herzfeld M. 1992. The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy New York: Berg
    [Google Scholar]
52. Hetherington K. 2011. Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
53. Heyman J. 2012. Deepening the anthropology of bureaucracy. Anthropol. Q. 85:41269–77
    [Google Scholar]
54. High H. 2014. Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos Singapore: Natl. Univ. Singapore Press
    [Google Scholar]
55. Hoag C. 2011. Assembling partial perspectives: thoughts on the anthropology of bureaucracy. POLAR 34:81–94
    [Google Scholar]
56. Horton S. 2006. New public management: its impact on public servant's identity: an introduction to this symposium. Int. J. Public Sect. Manag. 19:6533–42
    [Google Scholar]
57. Howey K. 2020. How is a gravel pit like a uranium mine? Spacetimes of property, development and the state in northern Australia. PhD Thesis Dep. Gend. Cult. Stud., Sydney Univ. Sydney:
    [Google Scholar]
58. Hull MS. 2012. Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
59. Jain SL. 2007. Cancer butch. Cult. Anthropol. 22:501–38
    [Google Scholar]
60. Kafka B. 2007. The demon of writing: paperwork, public safety, and the reign of terror. Representations 98:1–24
    [Google Scholar]
61. Kafka B. 2012. The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork New York: Zone Books
    [Google Scholar]
62. Kalberg S 2005. Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity Oxford, UK: Wiley
    [Google Scholar]
63. Kapferer B 1995. Bureaucratic erasure: identity, resistance and violence—Aborigines and a discourse of autonomy in a North Queensland town. Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local D Miller 69–90 London: Routledge
    [Google Scholar]
64. Kipnis AB. 2008. Audit cultures: neoliberal governmentality, socialist legacy, or technologies of governing?. Am. Ethnol. 35:2275–89
    [Google Scholar]
65. Lavie M. 2012. Writing against identity politics: an essay on gender, race, and bureaucratic pain. Am. Ethnol. 39:779–803
    [Google Scholar]
66. Lea T. 2008. Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia Sydney: Univ. N. S. W. Press
    [Google Scholar]
67. Lea T. 2020. Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
68. Lea T, Howey K, O'Brien J. 2018. Waging paperfare: subverting the damage of extractive capitalism in Kakadu. Oceania 18:305–19
    [Google Scholar]
69. Leighton M. 2020. Myths of meritocracy, friendship, and fun work: class and gender in North American academic communities. Am. Anthropol. 122:3444–58
    [Google Scholar]
70. Lerner SD. 2010. Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
    [Google Scholar]
71. Li TM. 2007. The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development and the Practice of Politics Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
72. Little PC. 2014. Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks New York: NYU Press
    [Google Scholar]
73. Little PC. 2018. Corporate mortality files and late industrial necropolitics. Med. Anthropol. Q. 32:161–76
    [Google Scholar]
74. Lock M. 2015. Comprehending the body in the era of the epigenome. Curr. Anthropol 56:2151–77
    [Google Scholar]
75. London Edinb. Weekend Return Group 1980. In and Against the State London: Pluto
76. Marcus GE 2000. Introduction. Para-Sites: A Casebook Against Cynical Reason G Marcus 1–13 Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
    [Google Scholar]
77. Martin E. 1988. Medical metaphors of women's bodies: menstruation and menopause. Int. J. Health Serv 18:237–54
    [Google Scholar]
78. Marvin S, Hodson M 2018. Cabin ecologies: the technoscience of integrated urban infrastructure. The Experimental City J Evans, A Karvonen, R Raven 88–104 London: Routledge
    [Google Scholar]
79. Mathews AS. 2008. State making, knowledge, and ignorance: translation and concealment in Mexican forestry institutions. Am. Anthropol. 110:4484–94
    [Google Scholar]
80. Mathur N. 2016. Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India Delhi: Cambridge Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
81. Michel T, Taylor A. 2012. Death by a thousand grants? The challenge of grant funding reliance for local government councils in the Northern Territory of Australia. Local Gov. Stud. 38:4484–500
    [Google Scholar]
82. Mosse D. 2005. Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice London: Pluto Press
    [Google Scholar]
83. Murphy M. 2006. Sick Building Syndrome and the Politics of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
84. Murphy M. 2008. Chemical regimes of living. Environ. Hist. 13:695–703
    [Google Scholar]
85. Nadasdy P. 2003. Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon Vancouver, BC: UBC Press
    [Google Scholar]
86. Nadasdy P. 2005. The anti-politics of TEK: The institutionalization of co-management discourse and practice. Anthropologica 47:2215–32
    [Google Scholar]
87. Nuijten M. 2003. Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology of Organisation in Mexico London: Pluto Press
    [Google Scholar]
88. Packer G. 2020. The president is winning his war on American institutions: how Trump is destroying the civil service and bending the government to his will. The Atlantic April. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/how-to-destroy-a-government/606793/
    [Google Scholar]
89. Pels P, Boog I, Henrike Florusbosch J, Kripe Z, Minter T et al. 2018. Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance?. Soc. Anthropol. 26:3391–413
    [Google Scholar]
90. Pinto S. 2018. Finding and conjuring. Med. Anthropol. 37:621–29
    [Google Scholar]
91. Povinelli EA. 2002. The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
92. Power M. 1997. The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
93. Prentice MM. 2019. The powers in PowerPoint: embedded authorities, documentary tastes, and institutional (second) orders in corporate Korea. Am. Anthropol. 121:2350–62
    [Google Scholar]
94. Razack S. 2015. Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody Toronto: Univ. Tor. Press
    [Google Scholar]
95. Rhodes RAW. 1994. The hollowing out of the state: the changing nature of the public service in Britain. Political Q 65:138–51
    [Google Scholar]
96. Riles A. 2000. The Network Inside Out Ann Arbor: Univ. Mich. Press
97. Riles A 2006. Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge Ann Arbor: Univ. Mich. Press
    [Google Scholar]
98. Rose G, Marmot MG. 1981. Social class and coronary heart disease. Br. Heart J. 45:113–19
    [Google Scholar]
99. Rowse T. 1992. Remote Possibilities: The Aboriginal Domain and the Administrative Imagination Darwin: N. Aust. Res. Unit, Aust. Natl. Univ.
    [Google Scholar]
100. Scherz C. 2011. Protecting children, preserving families: moral conflict and actuarial science in a problem of contemporary governance. italicPOLAR 3433–50
101. Schwartzman HB. 1989. The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities New York: Plenum Press
102. Scott JC. 1998. Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press
     [Google Scholar]
103. Seaver N. 2017. Algorithms as culture: some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Big Data Soc 4:2 https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717738104
     [Crossref] [Google Scholar]
104. Shange S. 2019. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
     [Google Scholar]
105. Sieber RT. 1979. Schoolrooms, pupils, and rules: the role of informality in bureaucratic socialization. Hum. Organ. 38:273–82
     [Google Scholar]
106. Simpson A. 2016. Consent's revenge. Cult. Anthropol 31:3326–33
     [Google Scholar]
107. Stoler LA. 2016. Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times London: Duke Univ. Press
     [Google Scholar]
108. Strathern M. 1988. The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
     [Google Scholar]
109. Strathern M 2000. Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy London: Routledge
     [Google Scholar]
110. Sturgess GL. 2017. Just another paperclip? Rethinking the market for complex public services Rep., Bus. Serv. Assoc. London: http://www.bsa-org.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Just-Another-Paperclip-FINAL.pdf
111. Sullivan P. 2008. Bureaucratic process as morris dance: an ethnographic approach to the culture of bureaucracy in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Administration. Crit. Perspect. Int. Bus. 4:2/3127–41
     [Google Scholar]
112. Sullivan P 2018. The tyranny of neoliberal public management and the challenge for Aboriginal community organisations. The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights: New Paternalism to New Imaginings D Howard-Wagner, M Bargh, I Altamirano-Jiménez 201–16 Canberra: Aust. Natl. Univ. Press
     [Google Scholar]
113. Taussig M. 2012. The stories things tell and why they tell them. e-flux 36: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/36/61256/the-stories-things-tell-and-why-they-tell-them/
     [Google Scholar]
114. Vincent E. 2017.. ‘ Against Native Title’: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia Canberra: Aborig. Stud. Press
     [Google Scholar]
115. Vismann C. 2008. Files: Law and Media Technology Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press
     [Google Scholar]
116. Wacquant L. 2009. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
     [Google Scholar]
117. Wacquant L. 2010. Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare and social insecurity. Soc. Forum 25:2197–220
     [Google Scholar]
118. West P. 2006. Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
     [Google Scholar]
119. Wilson SM, Peterson LC. 2002. The anthropology of online communities. Annu. Rev. Anthropol 31:449–67
     [Google Scholar]
120. Zhou X, Pardue MT, Iuvone PM, Qu J. 2017. Dopamine signaling and myopia development: What are the key challenges. Prog. Retin. Eye Res 61:60–71
     [Google Scholar]