Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge

Files, memoranda, and paperwork in general, are seen as routine instruments of bureaucratic practice, the means for achieving an end: the legal decision. Consequently, the analysis tends to focus on the ‘results’ of institutional acts but not on the process of institutionalization that files entail....

• Auteur principal: Barrera, Leticia (author)
• Format: article
• Langue: spa
• Publié: 2011
• Sujets: Files; bureaucracy; law; ethnography; instrumentality.; Expedientes; Burocracia; Derecho; Etnografía; Instrumentos; Bureaucracy; Law; Ethnography; Instrumentality
• Accès en ligne: https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/398