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Statistical visions of humanity: Tow...

Ishii, Akiko.

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Statistical visions of humanity: Toward a genealogy of liberal governance in modern Japan.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Statistical visions of humanity: Toward a genealogy of liberal governance in modern Japan./
作者:	Ishii, Akiko.
面頁冊數:	155 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-07A(E).
標題:	Asian history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3536785
ISBN:	9781267955678

Statistical visions of humanity: Toward a genealogy of liberal governance in modern Japan.
Ishii, Akiko.

Statistical visions of humanity: Toward a genealogy of liberal governance in modern Japan. - 155 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2013.

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This dissertation seeks to shed new light on the history of liberal governance in Japan and its overseas territories, primarily colonial Taiwan, from the late Tokugawa period to the wartime periods. It does so by examining the emergence and spread of the statistical concept of population in bureaucratic, social scientific, and literary texts. As a statistical artifact, the idea of population endorsed the "scientific" nature of social science, and determined what was and was not scientific---and, therefore, "rational"---government. In particular, the statistical regularity of population led social scientists and policy experts in Japan and colonial Taiwan to perceive the limits of coercive governance, suggesting new ways of controlling human collectivities in the territories. This dissertation traces the formation and transformation of such a concept of population from the arrival of Western statistics in Japan in the mid-nineteenth century to the era in which the concept of population became a core notion in the economic and social welfare thought of wartime Japan. It argues that the modern concept of population offered a specific way of understanding social relations in the particular historical juncture between Western and Japanese imperialisms. Eventually, it became a crucial element of liberal governance, characterized by an approach that was anti-state control yet interventionist, and represented itself as a quasi-universal reference point in economic rationality in the twentieth century. Indeed, it continues to do so, today.

ISBN: 9781267955678Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099323
Asian history.

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