Colonial archives actively shape what counts as legitimate knowledge

Evidence

Here I treat these colonial archives both as a corpus of writing and as a force field that animates political energies and expertise, that pulls on some “social facts” and converts them into qualified knowledge, that attends to some ways of knowing while repelling and refusing others. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 136

Categorization

• XREF: Aligns with the reader’s epistemic-anxiety framing and with scholarship on archives as productive, not merely preservative, of knowledge. — connects to: Indigenous oral records can span centuries beyond Western scientific statistics — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1615