imagery that was also confirmed by American observers readily proffering points of comparison: road linking the eastern border provinces with the open Mediterranean ports of Mersin and “A Iskenderun would, for example, be of great value by either yardstick. East Turkey is, like the old American West, a pioneer region less developed than the rest of the country.” If Eastern Turkey was open territory waiting to be acquired, its conquest necessitated the creation of new spatial structures, namely roads. Given their designation as alien territory, eastern provinces were to be rendered accessible, knowable, and controllable. The planning unit at the Directorate of Highways, for instance, carefully studied the population density and economic values of each region of the country; studies that were dispatched to the eleven regional divisions within the Directorate. The ordering of the material landscape was occasioned through a series of representational practices, such as maps that identified areas of economic interest in the country. The demarcation of the country into regions entailed their classification and comparison in terms of developmental progress. Regional categorizations were accompanied with the ranking of different sections of the landscape, as well as its transformation along conceptual and material registers. If regional maps were productive of of modernity,” “spaces their circulation also entailed the making application of knowledge pertaining to spatial and units. Knowledge of space, in turn, assigned regions to designated grades within a developmental scheme. The task of these maps surpassed that of supplemental mediums necessary to secure and display the authority of the governing apparatus: they were classificatory exercises that occasioned the possibility for the crafting of such authority in the first place. Conjured as efforts to conceptualize space as homogeneous, and universal in its qualities,” the effects of “abstract, these maps amounted to a spatial and social ordering with material and palpable consequences.
imagery that was also confirmed by American observers readily proffering points of comparison: “A road linking the eastern border provinces with the open Mediterranean ports of Mersin and Iskenderun would, for example, be of great value by either yardstick. East Turkey is, like the old American West, a pioneer region less developed than the rest of the country.” If Eastern Turkey was open territory waiting to be acquired, its conquest necessitated the creation of new spatial structures, namely roads. Given their designation as alien territory, eastern provinces were to be rendered accessible, knowable, and controllable. The planning unit at the Directorate of Highways, for instance, carefully studied the population density and economic values of each region of the country; studies that were dispatched to the eleven regional divisions within the Directorate. The ordering of the material landscape was occasioned through a series of representational practices, such as maps that identified areas of economic interest in the country. The demarcation of the country into regions entailed their classification and comparison in terms of developmental progress. Regional categorizations were accompanied with the ranking of different sections of the landscape, as well as its transformation along conceptual and material registers. If regional maps were productive of “spaces of modernity,” their circulation also entailed the making and application of knowledge pertaining to spatial units. Knowledge of space, in turn, assigned regions to designated grades within a developmental scheme. The task of these maps surpassed that of supplemental mediums necessary to secure and display the authority of the governing apparatus: they were classificatory exercises that occasioned the possibility for the crafting of such authority in the first place. Conjured as efforts to conceptualize space as “abstract, homogeneous, and universal in its qualities,” the effects of these maps amounted to a spatial and social ordering with material and palpable consequences.
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