COMS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Panopticon, Imagined Community, Sampling Frame

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2200
• Professor: Tracey P.Lauriault

Document Summary

Imagined communities: tried to understand why we believe we belong to the country that we think we belong to. We know the shape and cultures of where we belong. The census, map and museum shape the way in which the colonial state imagined its dominion the nature of the human beings it ruled, the geography of its domain and the legitimacy of its ancestry. Hirshman study british classification system (1986: categories are continuously agglomerated, disaggregated, recombined, intermixed and reordered with powerful identity categories lead the list, census classes became more visibly and exclusively racial, religious identity disappeared. William henry scott: philippines, reconstruct class structure pre-hispanic historical philippines, colonized by spain in 16th century. The map preceded the territory: maps that were created before anyone knew that the land existed or what it was called. The results of a census are used as a critical reference to ensure equity in distribution of wealth, government services and representation.