Modernizing the State in France: Digitalization, Simplification, and Usability Concerns in Mundane Administrative Work
Marie Alauzen is a PhD candidate in STS at the Centre de sociologie de l’innovation in Mines ParisTech. Her work focuses on the relationships between the making of the State and the construction of technologies. Her dissertation analyses ethnographically the devices that connect some French modernization programs, the making of administrative objects and users, and the production of various forms of governmentality. In this work, coordinated automation and digitalization appear as a trial for the State. In November 2017, she joined the QUAD project (Quantification, Administrative Capacity and Democracy) as a Junior Research Fellow and started an investigation on French administrative management in hospitals. She also contributes to Scriptopolis, a blog dedicated to an ordinary Anthropology of Writing.
Date:
27 February 2018, 16:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2018)
Venue:
Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details:
Tom 8, Lecture Room 1
Speakers:
Speaker to be announced
Organising department:
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Organiser:
Dr Chihab El Khachab (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
chihab.elkhachab@chch.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Chihab El Khachab
