POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Window Tax, Stolypin Reform
13 Mar 2016
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Census in afghanistan: enumerating, registering, choosing names, picking birthdays; know the age of the population, how many are able to work and pay taxes, how many are able to join the army. Collectivization in cambodia: cities emptied, farms collectivized, work mandatory - require everyone to work on the collectivized farms, property, $ ended, urban life ended, end all those things that represent evil. States administer tasks required of their citizens, examples from readings: Afghanistan: ensuring that citizens have surnames in order to register them within the state. Cambodia: collectivization of the population, making all lands public or state owned, forcing citizens to work on farms etc: scott"s answer. States => make territory, people legible - reading their state and their people. States don"t do all the same thing the same way; not everything looks like the khmer rouge, every state does this differently. Maintain order; inside and outside the country, keep peace. Taking a census does not equal mass civilization.
