Along the archival grain: epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense

By:

Stoler, Ann Laura

Series: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Princeton University Press, 2010. New Jersey:Description: xiii, 316p. : ill. ; pb. 23cmISBN:

9780691146362

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

959.8022 STO

Summary: 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. 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 sens

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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. 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 sens

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