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| There are two crucial differences to this sense of power: | There are two crucial differences to this sense of power: | ||
| - | * When you play your part in social life, power is operating on you. Even (and especially) in settings where you have a reason to play a role, you make it possible to create official knowledge of populations. | + | * It takes place in settings that are ostensibly beneficial: the so-called " |
| * The watchtower is everywhere, and no one is in it. Many different, independent social institutions require people who participate in them to modify themselves to fit into their roles. All of these roles teach you to see yourself the ways others see you. | * The watchtower is everywhere, and no one is in it. Many different, independent social institutions require people who participate in them to modify themselves to fit into their roles. All of these roles teach you to see yourself the ways others see you. | ||
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| * The “shock” is the busy schedule that the prisoners maintain. | * The “shock” is the busy schedule that the prisoners maintain. | ||
| * Nobody needs to be coerced or punished; there’s too much else going on: Boot camp, drills, classes, therapy sessions, etc. | * Nobody needs to be coerced or punished; there’s too much else going on: Boot camp, drills, classes, therapy sessions, etc. | ||
| - | * This is a prison that frees people, literally, | + | * This is a prison that frees people |
| * The prison in its time reported a great success, less recidivism. What does that mean? It was good at funnelling its inmates into the working class. | * The prison in its time reported a great success, less recidivism. What does that mean? It was good at funnelling its inmates into the working class. | ||
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| * In areas of the British Raj, a regime of nominally direct rule, officials created ad-hoc forms of autonomy for people and communities they could not control (Shah 2007, 1810). | * In areas of the British Raj, a regime of nominally direct rule, officials created ad-hoc forms of autonomy for people and communities they could not control (Shah 2007, 1810). | ||
| - | These colonial regimes also relied on highly centralized control of knowledge in order to implement different kinds of subject positions for different communities (Cohn 1987; Chandra 2013). * Backward tribes in backward tracts * Criminal tribes | + | These colonial regimes also relied on highly centralized control of knowledge in order to implement different kinds of subject positions for different communities (Cohn 1987; Chandra 2013). |
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| + | * Backward tribes in excluded areas (or backward tracts) | ||
| + | * Criminal tribes | ||
| + | * Martial races | ||
| Census categories are social facts with teeth. They have normative force. | Census categories are social facts with teeth. They have normative force. | ||
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