ship has taken shape within the master narrative of modernization and 4 Linnet Taylor and Dennis Broeders, “In the Name of Development: Power, progress — using computing and datafication as symbols of socioeconomic Profit and the Datafication of the Global South,” Geoforum 64 (August development.4 On the other hand, the government in its role as a regulator 2015): 229–37, . [...] As a collective of representatives, the government is obligated to exer- 11 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and cise the power of the state in the interest of the community that constitutes Spread of Nationalism, rev. [...] While data-driven systems as a distinct form of authority, discourse, and action have the ca- pacity to shape the political culture of a nation-state, the state often has its own repertoire of norms, institutions, and traditions that push back.21 The interplay between the two manifests in different meanings of a keyword in different geographies. [...] Building on these practices of counting, the development of the field of statistics by the beginning of the 19th century transformed the conception of the nation-state. [...] In an- thropology, this notion of the state as a western phenomenon dissolved with the firmer integration of political economy into the study of culture.33 The state was traditionally approached in the field “as a given — a distinct, fixed and unitary entity that defines the terrain in which other institutions func- tion.”34 However, more recently, attempts have been made to “bring together the id.
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