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Archival documents act as generative substances that shape the colonial apparatus.

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Archival documents act as generative substances that shape the colonial apparatus.

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In these chapters Dutch colonial archival documents serve less as stories for a colonial history than as active, generative substances with histories, as documents with itineraries of their own. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 35

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Archival documents act as generative substances that shape the colonial apparatus.
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Colonial archives could be reactivated to serve new governing strategies.
Colonial archives functioned as active technologies of rule, not passive records
Colonial archives were sites of expectation and conjured futures, not mere records.
Conditional and future-tense archival writing shaped colonial administrative responses
Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it
Netherlands Indies colonial archives functioned as a reactivatable arsenal for governance.
The Inlandsche kinderen were largely invisible to colonial statistics but omnipresent in state archives
Ann Laura Stoler — Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Commonsense
Ann Laura Stoler — Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Commonsense

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Archival documents act as generative substances that shape the colonial apparatus.

Archival documents act as generative substances that shape the colonial apparatus.

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