The statistical table is one expression of the settler colonial capacity and willingness to enumerate colonized “peoples” as “populations.” By examining four tables—from 1763, 1828, 1848, and 1850—in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia this paper illustrates the emergence of this powerful technique of representation during the same a period in which European states were developing their capacity to represent the social in statistical terms. In the colonial context, the rise of the notion of a “population” whose characteristics could be averaged contributed to the specifically administrative eclipse of native sovereignty, paralleling the jural/political demise of native sovereignty.

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作为殖民知识的统计表

统计表是定居者殖民能力和将被殖民“人民”列为“人口”的意愿的一种表达。本文通过检查加拿大、新西兰和澳大利亚 1763 年、1828 年、1848 年和 1850 年的四个表格，说明了这种强大的代表技术的出现是在欧洲国家发展其代表国家的能力的同一时期。统计意义上的社会。在殖民背景下，特征可以被平均化的“人口”概念的兴起导致了本土主权在行政上的特殊消退，与本土主权的法律/政治消亡并行。