Along the Archival Grain Stoler Ann Laura
Along the Archival Grain Stoler Ann Laura Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of…
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Along the Archival Grain Stoler Ann Laura
Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. She asks not what colonial agents knew, but what happened when what they thought they knew they found they did not. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space.Navigating familiar and extraordinary paths through the lettered lives of those who ruled, she seizes on moments when common sense failed and prevailing categories no longer seemed to work.
Rejecting the notion that archival labor be approached as an extractive enterprise, Stoler sets her sights on
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