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This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of how women in rural areas \u2013 marginalized along the lines of gender, class, caste and rural-urban gap \u2013 manage and navigate the state\u2019s documentary requirements to access social welfare.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study employs a social constructionist framework comprising guided tours (Thomson, 2018) with 14 women selected using purposive sampling across 3 villages in Mysuru district, Karnataka, India. The data were analyzed using the qualitative research software ATLAS.ti.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study shows that women\u2019s engagement with documents and consequently their interaction with the state is shaped by their caste, class, gender and geographical location. Women found acquiring IDs exhausting as they incur immense financial, logistical and emotional costs. At home, they take up the majority of the responsibility of maintaining IDs of the family and find it burdensome. Women also expressed feeling obligated to provide paper-based IDs as well as biometric data to the state. The affective states prompt them to configure careful and elaborate document classification and storing practices. They also regularly forge formal and informal networks with each other, the government functionaries and local non-governmental organizations to help them navigate the state\u2019s documentary requirements.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This paper focuses on rural and marginalized women\u2019s practices around IDs, a population that is often not centered within the literature around information practices, personal information management and personal record-keeping. Furthermore, the paper makes a theoretical contribution by drawing upon the concept of emotion as \u201ccontact zones\u201d (Ahmed, 2014) and developing it for Information Science. Specifically, the paper frames identity documents as \u201ccontact zones\u201d wherein women encounter and negotiate with the state. By emphasizing the complexity and imperfectness that characterizes women\u2019s engagement with IDs, the paper challenges the Indian state\u2019s rhetoric of \u201cseamless,\u201d \u201cpaperless\u201d and \u201ccontactless\u201d welfare delivery.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/jd-05-2025-0145","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,8]],"date-time":"2025-10-08T04:45:48Z","timestamp":1759898748000},"page":"1475-1496","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Navigating the state from the margins: understanding the material and affective aspects of women\u2019s engagement with identity documents in rural India"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"81","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-5675-7987","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Nayana","family":"Kirasur","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, , , ,","place":["New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA"]}]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,8]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2025110221333108700_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"58","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1467-6443.1988.tb00004.x","article-title":"Notes on the difficulty of studying the state (1977)","volume":"1","author":"Abrams","year":"1988","journal-title":"The Journal of Historical Sociology"},{"issue":"CSCW2","key":"2025110221333108700_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1145\/3610221","article-title":"What is a file on a phone? 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