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This book interrogates how districts were used in British North
America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson's
Bay Company (HBC). In particular, it examines how the HBC utilized
districts to create a political geography that allowed for closer
surveillance of indigenous people and stabilized debt. An initial
examination of how the district was used to rework earlier
18th-century conducts of observation into the more ordered and
spatially limited regime of inspection is undertaken, followed by
an investigation of how the district became central to the HBC's
efforts to limit the movement of indigenous people, individualize
hunters, and spur 'industriousness'. The book points to how
districts became key to a number of colonial projects, laying the
infrastructure for the modern reserve system in Canada. In this
sense, the book provides a critical genealogy of how the command of
space and social vision shaped Canada's colonial geography.
This book interrogates how districts were used in British North
America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson's
Bay Company (HBC). In particular, it examines how the HBC utilized
districts to create a political geography that allowed for closer
surveillance of indigenous people and stabilized debt. An initial
examination of how the district was used to rework earlier
18th-century conducts of observation into the more ordered and
spatially limited regime of inspection is undertaken, followed by
an investigation of how the district became central to the HBC's
efforts to limit the movement of indigenous people, individualize
hunters, and spur 'industriousness'. The book points to how
districts became key to a number of colonial projects, laying the
infrastructure for the modern reserve system in Canada. In this
sense, the book provides a critical genealogy of how the command of
space and social vision shaped Canada's colonial geography.
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