[Urbanstudy] CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford, Thursday, Nov 03, 6:30 pm

[sumandro]

Dear all,

We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC
Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the
Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at
6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are joining us.

*Public Measurements, Private Measurements and the Convergence of Units*

In this discussion I will focus on a comparison between the standard
government prescribed meters for autorickshaws and taxis and the role of
ridesharing apps as instruments which take measurements, as the basis
for the calculation of fares, and the more general questions which arise
for commerce, technology and their regulation. I will organise the paper
around the observations of a paratransit operations engineer on the
distinction between public and private instruments, and explore the
possible implications of new forms of commercialisation of location and
proximity and reactions to such developments for understanding questions
of fairness and corruption.

*William F. Stafford*

William F. Stafford, Jr., is a PhD candidate in the Department of
Anthropology, UC Berkeley. William's research focuses on the
auto-rickshaw meter in New Delhi, as a way to engage with classical
questions concerning the relationship between measurement,
quantification and delimitations of domains of labour. William's general
interests concern the analytics of labour and the reconfiguration of
what are often taken as its axiomatic aspects. Before joining Berkeley,
he studied Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Delhi School
of Economics.

URL:
<http://cis-india.org/raw/cisxscholars-delhi-william-f-stafford-thursday-nov-03>

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Sumandro Chattapadhyay

Research Director
The Centre for Internet and Society
<http://cis-india.org/>

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