This article originates from the consideration that religion, spirituality and faith affect public
administration, its configuration and its workings. Religion, spirituality, and faith are …

This paper will investigate the emergence of a digitalising state in the global south through a
focus on new techniques of governance initiated by the information age. It will discuss the …

The self-employed faced strong income losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many
governments introduced programs to financially support the self-employed during the …

This article explores the material practices through which lower‐caste and poor villagers
engage with bureaucracy in contemporary India. We take documents and paperwork–such …

Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship examines how the legacies of colonial
bureaucracy continue to shape political life after empire. Focusing on the former British …

Working under the assumption that societal pockets of low trust in government are likely to
proliferate, this introduction to the special issue on “governance in low‐trust settings” …

Drawing on interviews with disability and income support beneficiaries, the article examines
the encounters of Israeli citizens with the National Insurance Institute. Using the …

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 …

Although tens of thousands of households are on the waiting-list for social housing in
Australia, little is known about how they experience waiting for social housing. Drawing on …

Recent geographical scholarship has mainly focussed on the disjunctures between linear
and cyclical time in urban development. This paper proposes a notion of distant time as a …