Stealing Time: Postcolonial Bureaucracies and the Iron Cage of Education
认为官僚体制的时间偷窃是一种后殖民治理形式，通过冗余行政程序榨取公民的时间、精力和尊严，并以高等教育为例说明其如何维持结构性不平等，提出基于信任和透明的改革路径。
This commentary argues that bureaucratic time theft is a form of postcolonial governance that extracts citizens’ time, energy, and dignity through redundant administrative procedures rooted in colonial mistrust. Using higher education as a key site, it shows how such systems sustain structural inequality and proposes pathways to escape this “iron cage” through trust-based and transparent institutional reform.