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I feel that the struggle against Aadhaar is not separate from struggle of migrants for social and political rights. It will also be good to critically think about some concepts that appear like phosphenes in the course of the Aadhaar debate, like identity and citizenship. Perhaps, as Clavell (2011) points out, one needs to reverse one’s thinking on surveillance technology. We tend to think of the surveillance in Aadhaar as technology that has social and political consequences. So, we think of the iris scan and the attendant tracking of movement, transactions and entitlements as social and political consequences of a technology. A longer and harder look, however, might reveal that it is a social and political process, one that wants to create legible citizens and spaces, with technological consequences. So to have this uncorrupt, wormless, odourless public distribution system, (no black marketing, no hoarding), we need this iris scan. To get the illegal migrants out, we need this finger print.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 05:30:36 +0000

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