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. She asks not what colonial agents knew, but what happened when what they thought they knew they found they did not. Rejecting the notion that archival labour be approached as an extractive enterprise, Stoler sets her sights on archival production as a consequential act of governance, as a field of force with violent effect, and not least as a vivid space to do ethnography.' - from publisher's website
Includes a selective chronology of the colonial history of the Indies, and a list of Governors-General of the Netherlands Indies from 1830 to 1930. With bibliography.
Onsite
English
history,  archive,  colonialism,  Indonesia
2009
316
9780691146362
1
monograph
Prologue in Two Parts
The Pulse of the Archive
Part I: Colonial Archives and Their Affective States
Habits of a Colonial Heart
Developing Historical Negatives
Commissions and Their Storied Edges
Part II: Watermarks in Colonial History
Hierarchies of Credibility
Imperial Dispositions of Disregard
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