Colonial archives functioned as active technologies of rule, not passive records
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- Colonial archives were sites of expectation and conjured futures, not mere records. (similarity 0.94)
- Colonial archives preserve fantasies of what might yet be, not just events. (similarity 0.92)
- Colonial archives actively shape what counts as legitimate knowledge (similarity 0.86)
- Colonial archives actively produce categories rather than merely record them (similarity 0.86)
- Colonial archives stayed live ammunition that later rulers could rearm (similarity 0.85)
- Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it (similarity 0.85)
- Colonial archives could be reactivated to serve new governing strategies. (similarity 0.85)
- Archives are cultural spaces, not just document collections, shaped by colonial relations (similarity 0.85)
- Colonial archives extend beyond official collections into a wider force field of document production (similarity 0.84)
- Archival form itself constitutes a technology of colonial governance (similarity 0.84)
- Colonial archives record administrators’ uncertainty about matching rules to reality (similarity 0.83)
- Archival documents act as generative substances that shape the colonial apparatus. (similarity 0.83)
- The archival field both consolidates and internally resists colonial authority (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial archives should be treated as ethnographic sites not extraction sources (similarity 0.83)
- Current colonial scholars read archives as places and cultural spaces (similarity 0.82)