整理纸张:肯尼亚土地记录数字化的档案工作

IF 3.6 3区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Ayona Datta, Dennis M. Muthama
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内罗毕的土地数字化计划对肯尼亚国家改革土地管理的愿望提出了持续的挑战。通过借鉴档案科学和数字地理学的见解,本文认为肯尼亚土地管理记录的数字化为我们提供了一个关注信息如何从纸质流向数字系统的机会,以及使其成为可能的人类条件的本质。基于对内罗毕及其周边县的土地数字化倡议的研究,本文首先探讨了数字化是如何在构成国家档案机构的土地记录部门启动大规模的纸质文件分类工作的;其次探讨了国家官员在这一过程中的档案劳动是如何同时具有重要意义、不被察觉和被贬低的。通过对县级和州级部门国家官员的访谈,我们认为,数字化进程远比肯尼亚土地管理无缝过渡到自动化的言论要复杂和混乱得多。数字化涉及州政府官员缓慢的纸张分类劳动,而他们在设计平台方面几乎没有权力。国家官员没有接受过 "档案实践 "的专业培训,在国家土地信息平台的制作过程中似乎没有发言权,他们的档案劳动被贬低,导致了对平台本身的颠覆和不合作。本文的结论是,通过档案实践的工具和技术来观察数字平台的广阔视角使我们能够理解平台失败的原因,纸张在数字系统中增值的原因和方式,以及档案劳动如何成为未来数字化和平台化政治的核心。
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Sorting paper: The archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya

Sorting paper: The archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya

Sorting paper: The archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya

Nairobi's land digitisation programme presents continuous challenges to the Kenyan state's aspirations of reforming land administration. By drawing upon insights from archival sciences and digital geographies, this paper argues that digitisation of Kenya's land administration records presents us with an opportunity to pay attention to how information flows from paper to digital systems, and the nature of human condition that makes it possible. Based on research of land digitisation initiatives in Nairobi and its peripheral counties, this paper explores first, how digitisation initiates a large-scale state exercise of sorting paper in the land records departments that constitutes the archival apparatus of the state; and second, how the archival labour of state officials in this process is at the same time significant, invisible and devalued. Through interviews of state officials in county and state departments, we argue that the digitisation process is far more complex and messier than the rhetoric of seamless transition to automated land administration in Kenya. Digitisation involves a slow embodied labour in sorting paper by state officials who have little power in shaping the design of the platform that they are expected to use. The devaluation of the archival labour of state officials who are not professionally trained in ‘archival practice’ and are seemingly voiceless in the production of national land information platforms leads to subversion and non-cooperation with the platform itself. The paper concludes that an expansive lens of seeing digital platforms through the tools and technologies of archiving practices enables us to understand why platforms fail, why and how paper increases value within digital systems and how archival labour is central to the politics of digitisation and platformisation in the future.

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期刊介绍: The Geographical Journal has been the academic journal of the Royal Geographical Society, under the terms of the Royal Charter, since 1893. It publishes papers from across the entire subject of geography, with particular reference to public debates, policy-orientated agendas.
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