State Simplifications and the Changing Landscapes of the Globalizing South

State Simplifications and the Changing Landscapes of the Globalizing South BY TIMOTHY RAVIS March 30, 2019   “…one might conjure up an exacting state official aspiring to a perfectly legible population with registered, unique names and addresses, living in grid settlements, pursuing single occupations, owning rectangular lots and planting a single crop, all of whose