Beschreibung:
Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. This book explores how those functions transform over time, allowing private challenges to the public narratives created by institutions and governments.
Introduction: Bureaucracy, archive files, and the making of knowledge1. Asylum case records: fact and fiction2. Bookkeeping madness. Archives and filing between court and ward3. Work, paperwork and the imaginary Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, 18464. Papering over madness: accountability and resistance in colonial asylum files: a New Zealand case study5. Paper Soldiers: the life, death and reincarnation of nineteenth-century military files across the British Empire 6. Red ink, blue ink, blood and tears? War records and nation-making in Australia and New Zealand7. A tale of two bureaucracies: asylum and lunacy law paperwork