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" The precise specification of space and function that characterize modern institutions, the coordination of these functions into hierarchical arrangements, the organization of supervision and surveillance, the marking out of time into schedules and programs,... "
After Communism: Perspectives on Democracy (p) - Page 125
edited by - 2003 - 304 pages
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Colonising Egypt: With a New Preface

Timothy Mitchell - 1991 - 246 pages
...institutions, the coordination of these functions into hierarchical arrangements, the organisation of supervision and surveillance, the marking out of time into schedules and programmes—all contribute to constructing a world that appears to consist not of a complex of social...
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State/culture: State-formation After the Cultural Turn

George Steinmetz - 1999 - 452 pages
...government. The precise specification of space and function that characterize modern institutions, the coordination of these functions into hierarchical...an inert "structure" that somehow stands apart from individuals, precedes them, and contains and gives a framework to their lives. Indeed the very notion...
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Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories

Madeleine Yue Dong - 2003 - 406 pages
...viewing everything as an exhihition, a perspective best expressed by the world expositions. This world appears "to consist not of a complex of social practices...an inert structure that somehow stands apart from individuals, preexists them, and contains and gives a framework to their lives."18 This principle of...
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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Gail Hershatter - 2007 - 171 pages
...suggests that the precise specification of space and function that characterize modern institutions, the coordination of these functions into hierarchical...an inert "structure" that somehow stands apart from individuals, precedes them, and contains and gives a framework to their lives. . . . We should examine...
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