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Antecedents and implications of territorial servitization

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2018, Regional Studies

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AM\I'W I. This paper examines some of the ways in which state power is extended and consolidated. In particular, Foucault's notion of 'governmentality' is employed to investigate some of the rationalities and technologies used by the modern liberal state to 'govern at a distance'. Governmentality allows us to explain how the state is able to regukNe spheres of civil society that are not under its direct control. In order to undertake this task successfully a host of indlrrct mechanisms must be employed to enxure that chil domains are governable. Statistics are cited as one good example of how government at ;I distance is achieved. for the collection of numbers &out various populations allo~va those populations to be acted upon as they are made increasingly visible and calculalde. The example of British agriculture during the 10th and 20th c,enturiex is explored. It illustrates how the collection of statistics gradually rendered agriculture visible and permitted its characterization ;is 3n economic sector. The development of a national policy-for the 'national farmfollowed. which sought to rationalize agriculture in line with statistical representations. Thus a consoliclation of the agricultural territory was achieved during the post-n-ar years. In the prcjcess, farms and farmers wet-e disembedded from their immediate so&-spatial contexts 3s they were integrated into 2 discrete economic sector.

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