Nonrecording Sates

This issue's theme section, titled "Nonrecording states" and guest edited by Barak Kalir and Willem van Schendel, shows explores why and when states knowingly refrain from recording people and their activities. Presenting case studies from China, Greece, the Netherlands, India, and Romania, the articles show that strategies of nonrecording are flexible, selective, and aimed at certain populations-and that both citizens and noncitizens can be singled out for nonrecording or derecording.