2. How do we imagine states?
In particular buildings? Symbols? The organization and use of
force?
3. This assumes the
state ‘as thing’.
We can point to it, locate it, in
definite spaces.
But what are the limits to this
line of thinking? How does this
method make it challenging to
study the geography of ‘the
state’?
4. But, where is the state?
We know the state is effectuated and evidenced in a series of
polices, programs, laws, codes, and norms--so where do we place it?
5. Painter’s
‘stateness’
Appears and reappears in a
range of policies, practices,
and approaches far from
sites of instrumental power.
7. Prosaics, or, The everyday
❖ We are looking for the
state in most basic
iterations--no statues,
cathedrals, or
monuments.
❖ How does the state
creep in to influence
the way regular people
interact, move, buy, sell,
shop, eat, build, drive,
and live?
8.
9. Imaging Stateness
The Federal Identity Program creates a unified look and
feel--a brand--for everything associated with the Canadian
federal government.
