 | Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense Subjects: Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Indonesia -- Social policy -- 19th century; Archives -- Indonesia -- History; Colonial administrators -- Indonesia; Colonial administrators -- Netherlands; 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. Ann Laura Stoler is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. Her books include Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power and Race and the Education of Desire . |
