POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gwn7, Ibm Officevision
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Census in afghanistan counting people, registering them, forcing people to pick last name as well as a birth date. Issuing identity cards in order to get provision form state. Cambodia under polpot"s regime not just consensus. Empty cities and work communal farms (even professor and university students). Eradicating private property and urban lifestyle and language. States seek to make territory and make people legible which means make the people readable and easy to understand. *not all states do this through the same means. They want to raise revenue and avoid having people starve to death. Keep the peace = mo starvation and no riots. Protect their borders for attack (conscription = south korea, afghanistan) Point of legibility is that all these tasks can only be fulfilled through the knowledge of: Occupation, weight, ability, size, age and gender. How much land there is (agricultural country) How much people produce (taxation can"t guess, need exact income)