“整个世界的农业部”:国际农业研究所和奥斯曼统计收集的政治

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E. Williams
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摘要:1905年,作为联合国粮食及农业组织(FAO)前身的国际农业研究所(IIA)成立,为来自世界各地的官僚和技术官僚创建了一个论坛,交流有关农业实践和管理最新发展的信息。奥斯曼帝国的代表积极参与了该研究所的早期活动。这篇文章追溯了他们对该研究所旨在制定国际标准的形成性辩论的贡献,以及他们参与的最终项目。它认为,该研究所除了代表了一个奥斯曼官员可以在其中发挥其专业知识并发挥其参与全球标准制定过程的能力的空间外,还为整理和比较整个帝国的统计数据提供了动力。所开展的项目借鉴了现有的省级统计机构,有助于揭示各省之间的差异,从而朝着提高全员工的易读性迈出一步。文章聚焦于帝国的东地中海省份,展示了这些统计数据的公开发行不仅使奥斯曼官员能够确定他们认为适合进一步农业发展的地区,而且支持法国官员在第一次世界大战后实施殖民统治的理据。
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"The Agriculture Ministry of the Whole World": The International Institute of Agriculture and the Politics of Ottoman Statistics Collection
Abstract:In 1905 the establishment of the International Institute of Agriculture (IIA), the forerunner to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, created a forum for bureaucrats and technocrats from around the globe to exchange information about the latest developments in agricultural practice and administration. Representatives from the Ottoman Empire were active participants in the institute's early activities. This article traces their contributions to the institute's formative debates that aimed to set international standards as well as the imperiallevel projects that resulted from their participation. It argues that the institute, in addition to representing a space in which Ottoman officials could assert their expertise and perform their capacity to be a part of global standard-setting processes, provided an impetus for collating and comparing statistics from across the empire. The projects undertaken drew from existing provincial statisticsgathering institutions and served to reveal differences across provinces in a step toward greater empirewide legibility. Focusing on the empire's Eastern Mediterranean provinces, the article demonstrates how these statistics' public circulation not only enabled Ottoman officials to identify regions they considered ripe for further agricultural development, but also supported French officials' justifications for imposing colonial rule post–World War I.
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